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TL;DR Google brought music generation to its Recorder app with the launch of the Pixel 10.
This week, Pixel 9 series devices are being updated to get access to those music creation tools.
Google’s also expanding recording summaries to new languages on Pixel 8 hardware.
Google’s Recorder app is one of our favorite things about using Pixel phones, and for a seemingly straightforward app, it offers a whole lot of utility. Beyond recording conversations for us, it’s also able to transcribe them, and has even picked up the ability to use AI to prepare concise summaries. With the launch of the Pixel 10, it added music generation to that growing bag of tricks, and now we’re seeing access finally expand.
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It’s a pattern that’s played out time and time again: Google hypes up its latest Pixel hardware by giving it exclusive access to the latest and greatest software features. But then a few months down the road, after that initial excitement has cooled off, Google starts expanding access to older Pixel phones — at least those recent enough to be up to the task.
Right now, we’re seeing a new message appear in Recorder on our Pixel 9 phones, informing us of the arrival of AI-powered music generation, just like we had on Pixel 10 devices:
Sure enough, Google’s latest changelog confirms the tool’s arrival. And that’s not all, with us also seeing some expansion for language support in summaries.
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