YouTube Music rolling out live lyrics feature

San Francisco: Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music has announced the launch of a live lyrics feature on Android and iOS devices globally.

The live lyrics feature, replacing the old static lyrics, will automatically scroll the lyrics as a song progresses to provide an interactive user experience.

With the new lyrics feature, the existing Lyrics tab in ‘Now Playing’ will be upgraded to a new design with larger text and improved spacing. The page will also automatically refresh and move when the song jumps to the next line.

To access the feature, users will need to update the YouTube Music app to version 6.15 on Android and version 6.16 on iOS.

Earlier, YouTube had announced that it is testing a new feature on Android that will allow users to search for a song on the platform by humming.

Users in the experiment can toggle from YouTube voice search to the new song search feature, and hum or record the song they are searching for over three seconds in order for the song to be identified.

Once the song is identified, users will see relevant official music content, user-generated videos, and Shorts featuring the searched song in the YouTube app.

With inputs from IANS