Android Users Try Out YouTube’s Hum-to-Search Function
Android users who enjoy listening to music have reason to rejoice as YouTube is currently experimenting with a search function that allows users to identify songs by humming.
As noted on YouTube’s support page, the video-sharing platform is testing a song-by-song search feature on the Android version of the app that will allow users to find a song on YouTube by humming, singing, or recording the song, TechCrunch reported.
Users with access to the trial can go from YouTube’s voice search to the new song search feature and hum, sing or record a song for at least three seconds. The platform then identifies the tune and directs the user to relevant YouTube videos that contain the searched song, whether it’s an official music video, user-generated content or shorts.
The search by track feature is only available to a small percentage of Android users.
This feature isn’t entirely new to Google, having introduced the hum search feature in the Google app and Google Assistant in 2020.
