YouTube’s new AI turns your voice into music tracks in seconds (and it’s free for creators)

Key Highlights

• YouTube adds AI tool to turn speech into music
• New AI video editing tools in five English markets
• YouTube paid creators $100 billion in four years

YouTube showed its new Speech to Song tool at the Made On YouTube event on September 16. This tool lets you turn spoken words from your videos into music tracks. It uses DeepMind Lyria 2 technology. The feature starts in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. You pick music styles like chill, danceable, or fun. The tool keeps credit for the original content owners.

YouTube also launched Edit with AI. This tool puts together your video clips into drafts with music and transitions. YouTube is testing Edit with AI on Shorts and in the YouTube Create app. The feature will reach more places soon. Other new tools include motion transfer, which copies dance moves, and style transformation, which adds effects like pop art. All AI-made content gets a SynthID watermark for transparency.

YouTube is building on its AI music partnerships, like its 2023 deal with Universal Music Group for protected AI tools. The platform also launched YouTube AI instrumentals for copyright-free backing tracks. Alphabet, YouTube’s parent company, reported 10.3 percent growth in YouTube ad revenue to $8.93 billion in Q1 2025. These YouTube genAI tools help YouTube compete with TikTok for short-form video creators.”