Soon You Can Search Songs On YouTube By Humming

Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Mohit Bisht

YouTube is going to fulfull one of the wishes people have had for years.

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The platform will soon allow you to hum music to search for songs.

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Google confirmed that YouTube is testing the feature with a small group of people.

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It seems the testing is limited to YouTube users on Android, with iOS not part of the plans for now.

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You can toggle on YouTube voice search to get the new search option.

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Then the user has to hum or record the song you want to search and hold the record button for 3 seconds.

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YouTube will show a wide array of search results which includes songs, videos and Shorts as well.

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The hum to search feature has been available on Google Search for a few years.

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But coming to Android will help the feature reach millions of more users.

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