{"id":1170,"date":"2026-02-19T04:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/gemini-can-now-generate-a-30-second-approximation-of-what-real-music-sounds-like\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:44:45","slug":"gemini-can-now-generate-a-30-second-approximation-of-what-real-music-sounds-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/gemini-can-now-generate-a-30-second-approximation-of-what-real-music-sounds-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini can now generate a 30-second approximation of what real music sounds like"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/products\/gemini-app\/lyria-3\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">has announced<\/a> that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking. The new model builds on Gemini&#8217;s pre-existing ability to generate text, images and video, and will also be available in YouTube&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/youtube-creators-can-now-make-ai-song-remixes-for-shorts-143015775.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\">&#8220;Dream Track&#8221;<\/a> feature, where it can be used to generate detailed backing tracks for Shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Like some other music generation tools, prompting Gemini doesn&#8217;t require a lot of detail to produce serviceable results. Google&#8217;s example prompt is &#8220;a comical R&amp;B slow jam about a sock finding their match,&#8221; but after playing with Lyria 3, you can definitely get more granular about individual elements of a track \u2014 changing the tempo or the style of drumming, for example \u2014 if you want to. Outside of text, Gemini can also generate music based on a photo or video, and tracks can be paired with album art created by Google&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/googles-nano-banana-pro-image-generator-leverages-gemini-3-for-improved-visuals-and-text-rendering-185505073.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\">Nano Banana image model<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google says that Lyria 3 improves on its previous audio generation models in its ability to create more &#8220;realistic and musically complex&#8221; tracks, give prompters more control over individual components of a song and automatically generate lyrics. Gemini&#8217;s outputs are limited to 30-second clips for now, but given how Google&#8217;s promotional video shows off the feature, it&#8217;s not hard to imagine those clips getting longer or the model getting incorporated into other apps, like Google Messages.<\/p>\n<p>Like Gemini&#8217;s other AI-generated outputs, songs made with Lyria 3 are also watermarked with Google&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-wants-an-invisible-digital-watermark-to-bring-transparency-to-ai-art-164551794.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\">SynthID<\/a>, so a Gemini clip can&#8217;t as easily be passed off as a human one. Google started rolling out its <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/synthid-detector-can-check-media-to-see-if-it-was-generated-with-googles-ai-tools-194002070.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\">SynthID Detector<\/a> for identifying AI-generated content at Google I\/O 2025. The sample tracks Google included alongside its announcement are convincing, but you might not need the company&#8217;s tool to notice their machine-made qualities. The instrumental parts of Gemini\u2019s clips often sound great, but the composition of the lyrics Lyria 3 produces sounds alternately corny and strange.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious to try Lyria 3 for yourself, Google says you can prompt tracks in Gemini starting today, provided you&#8217;re 18 years or older and speak English, Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean or Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/gemini-can-now-generate-a-30-second-approximation-of-what-real-music-sounds-like-204445903.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/gemini-can-now-generate-a-30-second-approximation-of-what-real-music-sounds-like\/\">Gemini can now generate a 30-second approximation of what real music sounds like<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking. The new model builds on Gemini&#8217;s pre-existing ability to generate text, images and video, and will also be available in YouTube&#8217;s &#8220;Dream Track&#8221; feature, where it can be used to generate detailed backing tracks for Shorts. Like some other music generation tools, prompting Gemini doesn&#8217;t require a lot of detail to produce serviceable results. Google&#8217;s example prompt is &#8220;a comical R&amp;B slow jam about a sock finding their match,&#8221; but after playing with Lyria 3, you can definitely get more granular about individual elements of a track \u2014 changing the tempo or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}