Google launches Lyria 3
Song generation with vocals in the Gemini app
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- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Gemini app: 30 s tracks with vocals + lyrics, Nano Banana cover art, 18+ only, higher limits for AI Plus/Pro/Ultra
- Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese
- Gemini app can check uploaded audio for SynthID watermarks
- YouTube Dream Track (Shorts soundtracks) moved to Lyria 3
- 2026-03-25 Lyria 3 Pro: up to ~3 min with intro/verse/chorus/bridge control; API ids lyria-3-pro-preview ($0.08/song) and lyria-3-clip-preview ($0.04/clip)
What happened
Lyria 3 was Google’s first Lyria model to sing: it generates vocals and writes lyrics, not just instrumentals like Lyria 2. It rolled out on desktop on 2026-02-18, then mobile. Prompts naming an artist are treated as broad inspiration, not imitation.
Five weeks later (2026-03-25) Google released Lyria 3 Pro for full ~3-minute songs with structure control and opened both models to developers in the Gemini API/AI Studio and in public preview on Vertex AI, plus Google Vids and ProducerAI. The Pro launch cited producer Yung Spielburg’s Lyria-assisted score for the DeepMind short film “Dear Upstairs Neighbors”.
Why it matters
It put a Suno-class song generator in front of Gemini’s mass consumer audience and gave developers a first-party, pay-per-song music API with watermarking and C2PA credentials.
Sources
5 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
5 sources: 4 primary, 1 press
Primary
- Google: Use Lyria 3 to create music tracks in the Gemini appblog.google, official
- Google: Lyria 3 expands to more Google products (Lyria 3 Pro)blog.google, official
- Workspace Updates: custom soundtracks with Lyria 3workspaceupdates.googleblog.com, official
- Vertex AI Lyria 3 model pagedocs.cloud.google.com, docs
Press
- Music Business Worldwide on Lyria 3musicbusinessworldwide.com, press
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