YouTube Music now lets you ‘sing or hum’ to search on Android

What you need to know

• YouTube Music is starting to roll out a server-side update on Android, which brings a new wavelength icon for vocal song identification.
• After hitting the search icon, users tapping the wavelength can “play, hum, or sing” a tune to provoke the app’s AI to try and identify the song.
• The “results” page offers the album cover, song title, artist (or group), album year, play, button, and a save option.

YouTube Music is starting to roll out a feature on Android that lets users utilize their voice to search for songs they can’t get out of their heads.

As spotted by 9to5Google, users should begin noticing a wavelength icon beside the microphone symbol when tapping search in YouTube Music (to the far right of the search bar). As of update 7.02, tapping the wavelength symbol produces a colorful page that prompts users to “play, hum, or sing” a tune to run an AI-backed search through the platform. 

Once YouTube Music gets a match, users are given a simple splash page with all the information about the song. The “results” page shows a song’s album cover, title, group (or artist), and the album’s title with its debut year. Moreover, users can play the song right there or save it to a new or pre-existing playlist.