Gemini can now generate a 30-second approximation of what actual music feels like

Google has announced that utilizing its newly integrated Lyria 3 mannequin, Gemini customers will be capable of generate 30-second music tracks based mostly on a immediate, or remix an present observe to their liking. The brand new mannequin builds on Gemini’s pre-existing capacity to generate textual content, photos and video, and also will be accessible in YouTube’s “Dream Track” function, the place it may be used to generate detailed backing tracks for Shorts.

Like another music era instruments, prompting Gemini would not require quite a lot of element to supply serviceable outcomes. Google’s instance immediate is “a comical R&B gradual jam a few sock discovering their match,” however after enjoying with Lyria 3, you possibly can positively get extra granular about particular person components of a observe — altering the tempo or the model of drumming, for instance — if you wish to. Exterior of textual content, Gemini can even generate music based mostly on a photograph or video, and tracks may be paired with album artwork created by Google’s Nano Banana image model.

Google says that Lyria 3 improves on its earlier audio era fashions in its capacity to create extra “sensible and musically complicated” tracks, give prompters extra management over particular person parts of a track and robotically generate lyrics. Gemini’s outputs are restricted to 30-second clips for now, however given how Google’s promotional video reveals off the function, it is not onerous to think about these clips getting longer or the mannequin getting integrated into different apps, like Google Messages.

Like Gemini’s different AI-generated outputs, songs made with Lyria 3 are additionally watermarked with Google’s SynthID, so a Gemini clip cannot as simply be handed off as a human one. Google began rolling out its SynthID Detector for figuring out AI-generated content material at Google I/O 2025. The pattern tracks Google included alongside its announcement are convincing, however you may not want the corporate’s device to note their machine-made qualities. The instrumental elements of Gemini’s clips typically sound nice, however the composition of the lyrics Lyria 3 produces sounds alternately corny and unusual.

Should you’re curious to attempt Lyria 3 for your self, Google says you possibly can immediate tracks in Gemini beginning right now, offered you are 18 years or older and communicate English, Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean or Portuguese.