YouTube could let you search for a song by humming it

So, you have a song living in your head rent-free, and you just want to know what it is! However, you don’t know anything about the song other than the catchy tune. Well, YouTube is testing a solution to this issue. According to Android Police, YouTube is testing a feature that will let you search for a song just by humming it.

It seems odd that YouTube is doing this because it’s a video-first platform, but there’s a ton of music on YouTube. Not only do a plethora of musicians and artists upload their music videos to the site, but there’s also YouTube Music. It’s become the go-to spot for many people to listen to their music. So, if you’re one of those people, then this feature is for you.

YouTube may let you search for songs just by humming

This feature is pretty straightforward. When you use the voice search feature on YouTube, you’ll only need to hum the melody of the song you’re trying to identify, and the app will try to pinpoint it.

Since we’re dealing with artificial intelligence, you shouldn’t expect the results to be 100% accurate. The thing is that not everyone is a singer; a lot of the folks humming the tunes won’t be perfectly on pitch. That will make it even harder for the app to identify what’s being hummed.

It seems that, if YouTube has trouble identifying what you hummed, you might not leave empty-handed. When YouTube gives you results, it will give you several possible results based on the sound sample. So, if it didn’t directly identify it or if your humming was a little off, you still have a chance of finding that song.

As stated, this feature is in testing at the moment, so you won’t be able to use it just yet. You’ll need to wait until YouTube rolls it out to the app. Until then, that song is just going to have to stay in your head.