From TechCrunch · Lauren Forristal · · 1m 40s
YouTube Music adds conversational AI to find songs and podcasts
YouTube is rolling out AI features that let you describe music you want to hear in plain language and get personalized podcast recommendations.
In brief
YouTube is rolling out AI features that let you describe music you want to hear in plain language and get personalized podcast recommendations. YouTube Music's new Ask Music feature lets you search by describing what you want to hear rather than naming specific songs, while Your Podcast Lineup offers weekly…
YouTube Music goes conversational
YouTube announced two new AI features at its Made on YouTube event: Ask Music for conversational song discovery and Your Podcast Lineup for personalized podcast recommendations.
Ask Music searches by description
Instead of typing song or artist names, Ask Music lets you describe what you want to hear in everyday language. It works across YouTube Music's catalog of over 300 million songs, including remixes, live performances, covers, and DJ sets.
Ask anything about a song
You can ask Ask Music to create a mix based on tracks that inspired a song, find out who played bass, or explore an artist's motivations and music history.
Your Podcast Lineup solves discovery
The new feature provides a weekly spoken preview of recommended podcasts with explanations of why they might appeal to you, then lets you jump directly into suggested episodes.
Spotify already doing similar work
Spotify recently launched an AI-powered personal podcasts feature that generates episodes based on user interests and prompts, showing the industry trend toward AI-driven discovery.
Rolling out to Premium subscribers
Both features are coming soon to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers worldwide as part of YouTube's broader push to integrate AI across its services.
The key point
YouTube Music's new Ask Music feature lets you search by describing what you want to hear rather than naming specific songs, while Your Podcast Lineup offers weekly AI-generated audio guides to discover new shows.
