Gemini Can Now Turn Your Text or Photos into Custom Music: Here’s How

Google is adding a major new feature to its Gemini AI assistant that lets you generate custom 30-second music tracks just by typing a description or uploading a photo. The tool uses a new model called Lyria 3, which is rolling out in beta to help people create fun, short songs for sharing with friends.

Unlike older AI music tools, this one doesn’t require you to write your own lyrics; Gemini handles the songwriting, vocals, and melody for you based on whatever vibe you describe. You can ask for something specific like a “comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding their match,” or even upload a photo of your dog on a hike to get a custom track that fits the mood of the image. Pretty cool.

The process is designed to be quick and easy for anyone to use. You simply head to the Gemini app or website and describe a genre, memory, or inside joke. Within seconds, the AI creates a high-quality track complete with custom cover art. Once the song is ready, you can download it or send a share link directly to your friends.

While the AI is doing the heavy lifting, Google emphasized that this is meant for personal expression, not for replacing professional artists. The system is specifically designed not to mimic existing musicians. If you try to prompt it with a famous artist’s name, it will only use that as a broad inspiration for the style or mood rather than copying them directly.

To keep things transparent, every song generated by the app includes an invisible digital watermark called SynthID. This helps people identify that the audio was made with AI (because we can’t believe anything anymore, nowadays!). You can even upload an audio file to Gemini and ask if it was made by Google, and the system will check for that watermark.

Google says Lyria 3 is also coming to Dream Track, letting creators on YouTube make customized soundtracks for their Shorts.

The feature is launching globally today (yes, that includes Canada) on desktop and will hit the mobile app over the next few days. It is available to users 18 and older in several languages, including English, French, and Spanish. While it’s free to try, subscribers to Google’s paid plans like AI Plus and Pro will have higher limits on how many tracks they can make.