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YouTube Music gets Voice Control with Gemini Extension
As announced at I/O 2024, Google is now widely rolling out the YouTube Music Gemini Extension, which brings basic phone assistant functionality to the mobile app.
You can visit gemini.google.com/extensions to activate the extension for YouTube Music. The extension allows you to use voice commands to control YouTube Music on your phone. You can play songs, artists, playlists, and radio stations. It can also find music based on genre or lyrics. In the future, there will be Gemini Extensions for other Google apps like Calendar and Keep.
Here are some official example commands, shared by Google:
- Show some rock music
- Turn on White Noise @YouTubeMusic
- Play music that I like
- Play rock music radio
- Show me songs from modern artists keeping classic blues alive
You can also use these prompt formats:
- Find [song name] by [artist name]
- Find the album [album title] by [artist name]
- Find playlist
- Find [genre] music
- Search for songs similar to [song name] by [artist name]
- Find the song that goes [song lyrics]
- Find the [song name] music video
- Start a radio based on the song [song name]
- Search for [artist name] songs
