tech
February 5, 2026
Lyria
Designed to produce high-quality music primarily through offline generation.
TL;DR
- Lyria 2 is an open-source model for real-time and offline music generation.
- It produces high-fidelity, professional-grade 48kHz stereo audio.
- Users can control key, BPM, and other musical characteristics using text prompts.
- The model supports diverse genres, including Jazz, Psychedelic Cumbia, Film Score, UK Garage, Sinti Jazz, and Orchestral music.
- Lyria 2 assists musicians by generating starting points, harmonies, and arrangements, helping to overcome writer's block.
- The Music AI Sandbox is an experimental tool developed with musicians to amplify creativity.
- Collaborations include work with Grammy Award-winning artist Shankar Mahadevan and powering Google Cloud Next '25.
- Guardrails and safety technologies, including SynthID watermarking, are implemented to ensure AI enhances, not replaces, human creativity.
- Related tools include Google AI Studio, Gemini API, MusicFX DJ, and Vertex AI Studio.
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