Google has introduced that utilizing its newly included Lyria 3 mannequin, Gemini customers will be capable to generate 30-second music tracks primarily based on a immediate, or remix an current monitor to their liking. The brand new mannequin builds on Gemini’s pre-existing capacity to generate textual content, pictures and video, and also will be out there in YouTube’s “Dream Monitor” characteristic, the place it may be used to generate detailed backing tracks for Shorts.
Like another music technology instruments, prompting Gemini does not require a number 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 may undoubtedly get extra granular about particular person components of a monitor — altering the tempo or the fashion of drumming, for instance — if you wish to. Exterior of textual content, Gemini may also generate music primarily based on a photograph or video, and tracks may be paired with album artwork created by Google’s Nano Banana picture mannequin.
Google says that Lyria 3 improves on its earlier audio technology fashions in its capacity to create extra “lifelike and musically advanced” tracks, give prompters extra management over particular person elements of a track and routinely generate lyrics. Gemini’s outputs are restricted to 30-second clips for now, however given how Google’s promotional video reveals off the characteristic, it isn’t onerous to think about these clips getting longer or the mannequin getting included 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 software to note their machine-made qualities. The instrumental components of Gemini’s clips typically sound nice, however the composition of the lyrics Lyria 3 produces sounds alternately corny and unusual.
In the event you’re curious to attempt Lyria 3 for your self, Google says you may immediate tracks in Gemini beginning at the moment, offered you are 18 years or older and converse English, Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean or Portuguese.
