The Google Assistant improves its ability to recognize songs

If you're a pro music lover, surely Shazam works great for you to recognize songs wherever you are. A bar, a concert, the dentist's office... However, Shazam (which, by the way, will soon be part of the Apple conglomerate) is not the only option we have to recognize and find songs that we like or that we simply want to know about. title and artist.

The Google Assistant also does a good job of this.In case you haven't tried it before, you should know that it is a system very similar to Shazam, with which Google quickly directs you to a search for that song. In this way, you can later listen to it on Google Play and get all the information about its credits

Now Google has improved the tool to make it even more accurate and effective. These are the news that the company itself has reported and that interest you, if you are a music fan.

The Google Assistant will recognize more songs

The Mountain View company has reported on the new ability of the Google Assistant to recognize tens of millions of songs. The firm has just launched a new feature,called Sound Search in Now Playing, to recognize songs much faster and in a more accurate.

Sound Search can work in the Google search application (just hit the microphone button and then tap on the music note icon to find the song we are looking for), through the Google Assistant and on any mobile phone that works with Android.

How Google song recognition works

Behind this very practical feature or function is a technology that allows users to quickly access valuable information about the music they listen to.But how exactly does it work?

This technology tags each piece of audio with a unique fingerprint. And this is automatically compared with those already included in the database. Sound Search works on the server side, so in this sense we find no restrictions in terms of storage and capacity.

All the songs and tags for the songs we listen to are held by Google on their servers. All you have to do is detect, locate and report. And this way it is possible to do it with the tens of millions of songs that exist in the world You don't have to have extra storage space to do it.

And although the system already worked with enough guarantees (we have been using the Google application and observed more than substantial improvements over time), the one in Mountain View had Clearly improvements were needed.

As he indicates in his blog, it was necessary to improve the recognition of songs in very noisy environments or when the music is heard very softly. They also considered that there was the possibility of giving results much faster and this has been another of the improvements that have been incorporated into the service

How to recognize songs through Google

Have you never tried the service? If you want to recognize songs through Google, you have it very easy. We recommend follow these instructions for your first time. Then you'll know how to do it with your eyes closed.

1. Open Google or go directly to the search bar on your device's home screen.

2. Click on the microphone icon. Choose the option What song is it? You will find the icon of a musical note at the bottom of the screen.

3. Give Google a few seconds to listen to the song. You will instantly get the information about the part.