YouTube tests a new hum-to-search feature on Android
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6E4VC)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is testing a new YouTube feature that lets you hum or record a song to search for it.
If you're part of the YouTube experiment for the feature, you can hum or record three or more seconds of a song so that Google can try to identify it, according to a support page. Once YouTube identifies the song, it will show you relevant content about that song. Basically, it's a Google-y take on Shazam, which is owned by Apple.
Not everyone will have access to the experiment at first, though. Google says it's rolling out to a small percentage of people across the globe who watch YouTube on Android devices."
This feature isn't entirely new for Google, as it introduced a hum-to-search feature in the Google app and Google Assistant in 2020....