Overview
- Google announced Lyria 3.5, which rolled out Wednesday, July 29, 2026, inside Flow Music and promises better musicality, more natural vocals, and clearer lyrics.
- The release adds explicit creative controls for tempo, vocals, drums, bass and lets users set track length from 30 seconds to three minutes while improving prompt adherence and structural awareness for verses and choruses.
- Reported API prices make generation very cheap, at about $0.04 for a 30-second clip and roughly $0.08 for a full three-minute song, which dramatically lowers the per-track cost of production.
- Google’s stack contains no blockchain or crypto features, a design choice that calls into question the practical value of on-chain royalty and NFT-based music platforms that charge extra fees.
- Lyria 3.5 continues a rapid product cadence that began with Lyria 3 in February and Lyria 3 Pro in March and ties into Google’s wider tools for creators such as Gemini and YouTube, making fast, low-cost music creation widely accessible to musicians.