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TL;DR
- We’ve managed to activate YouTube Music as an Extension within the Gemini Android app. This demo reveals how the extension will work inside Gemini.
- The YouTube Music Gemini Extension permits Gemini to entry your YouTube Music info to supply higher search outcomes.
- The extension isn’t at the moment dwell inside Gemini however might launch quickly.
The race for AI has been underway for years, however ChatGPT pushed the business from a marathon to a dash. ChatGPT’s arrival caught Google considerably off-guard, and the corporate has since doubled down on its AI efforts below the Gemini rebrand. A technique Gemini might attain crucial mass is to draw extra customers who’re already current throughout the Google ecosystem, and Gemini Extensions might obtain this with tighter ecosystem integration. Google has been testing a Gemini Extension for YouTube Music that we’ve got detailed beforehand, and we now have a greater demo video to share with you on the way it will work when it rolls out.
Android Authority contributor Assemble Debug managed to activate a brand new Gemini Extension for YouTube Music within the Google app v15.17.28.29.arm64. With some extra work, we obtained the extension working effectively sufficient for a demo.
As you’ll be able to see within the above video, as quickly as you ask Gemini (through a voice immediate) to play some music, Gemini queries YouTube Music for the suitable outcome. It then seamlessly opens the YouTube Music app to start playback. There are not any clicks concerned from the purpose of invoking the AI voice assistant to the music playback.
As disclosed in our earlier protection, the YouTube Music extension in Gemini will mean you can play, search, and uncover your favourite songs, artists, playlists, and extra. You’ll be able to seek for songs, play a radio for a temper, and uncover new music.
If you allow the extension, Gemini will get entry to knowledge out of your YouTube Music account, like your playlists, playback historical past, and preferences. Data from YouTube Music is also shared with different extensions if that knowledge is included in your dialog. Should you don’t have the YouTube Music app put in in your cellphone, Gemini will play music from the net app.
The YouTube Music Gemini Extension isn’t at the moment dwell inside Gemini. However trying on the somewhat completed state of the function, we predict that it could possibly be launched quickly.
