Looking for a song on YouTube? Google will let you hum for it.

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority

• Google is testing a hum-to-search feature for YouTube, allowing you to find songs by humming.
• You can also record a song with your phone’s microphone to search for it.
• The platform is also testing a so-called “shelf” feature to bundle multiple recent uploads from a creator in one place.

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Humming to find a song isn’t anything new in the smartphone space, as Google Assistant and Soundhound have offered this feature for a while now. It’s nevertheless a handy way to find a song on your phone when you don’t know anything else about the track.

Now, Google has announced that it’s offering this hum-to-search functionality on YouTube as part of an experiment, along with the ability to record a currently playing song to identify it.

Author: Hadlee Simons. [Source Link (*), Android Authority]

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