YouTube has announced that it is testing a new feature on Android that allows users to search for a song on the platform by just humming tunes. YouTube is letting users find songs they heard somewhere, and liked, but forgot to add to their playlists.YouTube is currently testing this new feature on selected Android users. Google and YouTube are using the power of Machine Learning (ML) to make this feature work. This feature coming to YouTube will be used by an estimated massive global user base of 2.7 billion.
There is nothing new regarding YouTube testing newer features to finetune the app. To use this new feature, users need to toggle from YouTube voice search to the new song search feature, followed by humming or recording the song they’re searching for at least 3 seconds or more. Once the song is identified YouTube redirects the users to official music content, user-generated videos, or Shorts featuring the song that is searched.
This hum-to-search feature going to be introduced by YouTube is similar to the Shazam app which is widely used to search for songs by listening to a short clip. Such a similar feature was already introduced by Google in 2020. Users could search for music using a hum or a whistle but it required that users hum the song for 10-15 seconds to the Google Assistant. The humming sequences are compared to thousands of songs from all around the world to identify matches in real-time.
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