How to search for a song on YouTube by simply whistling or humming a tune
YouTube now also lets its users hum, sing or whistle a tune to search for a song. The feature is currently available to only a handful of users on Android. Here’s a step by step guide on how to use the feature. Similar to the murmur feature on the Google app and Google Assistant.
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- YouTube now lets you hum, sing or whistle a tune to search a song.
- The feature requires users to grant microphone access to the app.
- Youtube’s hum-to-search feature is currently available to a handful of Android users.
How many times have you woken up with a tune stuck in your head, and you just can’t remember the lyrics but also can’t let go of the tune until you figure out what song it is? Pretty often, correct? The next usual step is heading to Shazam, humming the song, and hoping it understands the song despite your baritone. And once you hit the jackpot, you head to your choice of music app –– and for 82% of music listeners in India, YouTube is the popular choice –– and finally get the song in and out of your head.
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YouTube, however, thinks you should be able to do all this directly from the platform. Which means, no more Shazam. We aren’t complaining!
YouTube now has a feature built into the app that allows you to hum any song into your phone to search for it on the platform. This is very similar to the hum-to-search feature that you may have noticed on Google Search. This feature is also available on the Google app and Google Assistant.
How this feature works is quite simple. Let’s go through it step by step.
Step 2: Tap on the Search icon on the top right
Step 3: You will notice a microphone icon next to the search bar. Tap on that.
(For the hum to search feature to work, you will have to grant microphone access to YouTube. In case you aren’t comfortable granting this access, you can either choose for YouTube to use your microphone online while you are using the app, or you can disable it right after you use the feature.)
Step 4: When you tap on the microphone, you can hum, sing or even whistle the tune of the song.
Step 5: YouTube will show you the results that it guessed. If it guessed it right, which mostly it does, you tap on it, else you tap on the microphone once again and hum one more time.
As of now, all YouTube users may not be able to see this feature. This seems to be a gradual rollout coming to only a handful of YouTube users on Android (mostly the ones on the beta version of the app). As of now, there is no word on when the feature will be available to YouTube users on iOS.
