YouTube assessments a brand new hum-to-search characteristic on Android

There’s excellent news for Android customers who love listening to songs. YouTube is testing a search characteristic the place customers hum to determine songs.

As famous on YouTube’s help web page, the video-sharing platform is testing a search-by-song functionality on the Android model of the app that enables customers to determine a track on YouTube by buzzing, singing or recording a track, TechCrunch reported.

Customers who’ve entry to the experiment can toggle from YouTube voice search to the brand new track search characteristic and hum, sing or document a track for 3 or extra seconds. The platform then identifies the tune and directs the person to related YouTube movies that includes the searched track, whether or not that be the official music video, user-generated content material or Shorts.

The search-by-song functionality is barely accessible to a small portion of Android customers.

This characteristic is not solely new for Google, because it launched a hum-to-search characteristic within the Google app and Google Assistant in 2020.