The new feature is seen as a significant upgrade from other music recognition apps like Apple's Shazam, SoundHound, and MusixMatch. If rolled out more widely, it could prove beneficial for many users, given YouTube's popularity as a platform for looking up songs. The main difference from Google's feature is that YouTube's version requires users to hum for only three seconds, compared to Google's 10-15 seconds.
Key takeaways:
- YouTube is testing a new feature on Android devices that allows users to identify a song by humming, singing, or recording a song.
- The feature is currently only available to a small portion of Android users and directs users to relevant YouTube videos featuring the searched song.
- This technology was first launched by Google, YouTube's parent company, in 2020, but required users to hum for 10-15 seconds to identify a song.
- The new YouTube feature uses the same machine learning models as Google's feature, which matches a person's hum to a song's "fingerprint" or signature melody.