Morning Edition · Thursday, July 30, 2026Published at 1:37 AM EDT · New York
Google Ships Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music With More Natural Vocals and Editable Covers
The model extends track length to three minutes and adds style-transfer Covers, pushing generative audio toward editable, production-ready output.
Google has launched Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music, its leading music-generation model, available to all users at no added cost. The claimed advances are in musical quality, with richer melodic structure across a full track rather than loops that…
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