Find a melody for your lyrics: hear them sung, then choose

Four ways to hear a melody for your words

The first two use your lyrics. The third does not sing them, so treat any words you hear as placeholders. The fourth keeps your own tune, because you are the one singing it.

How to choose between takes

The same lyrics give a different melody on every run, so the useful habit is to run it twice or three times and listen like an editor. A short checklist:

• Listen once without reading. Which line can you sing back when it ends? If it is the title line or the chorus, that take has a hook.
• Then listen with the text. Check that the important words land on strong beats and long notes, and that small words such as “the” and “of” pass quickly. A line whose key word is rushed will feel wrong even if the tune is pretty.
• Compare verse and chorus. A chorus usually sits higher, repeats more and is easier to sing than the verse. If the two sound alike, try another run.
• Check that every line is there. A long lyric can come back with a line skipped or changed. If it keeps happening, shorten the verses.
• Write down the timestamps. Note where the phrases you like start (for example “chorus, second line, 0:48”). A take is a sketch, and you can combine what you liked in your head when you sing it yourself.

Lines that share a tune work best when they have a similar syllable count. If one line is much longer than the line it should match, the singer squeezes it, and that is the first place a melody breaks. Fix it in the text, not in the settings.

Keeping a melody you like

Lyro will not repeat a melody. Run the same lyrics again and you get another one. So when a take is the one, capture it:

1. Save the song or the vocal. Both stay in your library, and downloads are never counted or capped.
2. Hear the vocal alone. The vocal on your own beat comes back as its own track. For a finished song, the stem splitter on Creator separates the vocal: one credit plus two per started minute, so 7 credits for a three-minute song.
3. Find the key. Upload the take to the BPM and key finder to read its key and tempo, so you can find the first note on a keyboard or a tuner app.
4. Learn it a line at a time. Sing along to one line until you can do it without the track, then the next. Record yourself on your phone.
5. Put music under your own voice. Drop that voice memo into voice memo to song and Lyro writes the instruments around it. Your recording stays exactly as you sang it.

Done this way, the melody you release is one you sing and own as a performance, with the AI take as the starting sketch.

What it costs to try a few melodies

Three runs of the same lyrics on Lyro High cost 12 credits. Starter is $14 a month for 80 credits, enough for 20 Lyro High songs, so about 6 different lyrics tried three times each. Three runs of a one-minute stretch of your own beat cost 21 credits.

The cheap way to audition a long song is to try the part that carries the melody. Paste the chorus and one verse, run it two or three times, and only then paste the whole lyric. On your own beat, upload only the chorus bars: it costs 7 credits for up to a minute against 11 credits for three.

Where the limits are

• Audio only. Lyro returns sound. There is no MIDI file and no sheet music, so the melody cannot be opened as notes in a piano roll. Some tools do export MIDI: LyricToMelody AI says on its home page (read 10 Oct 2026) that it turns lyrics into a melody with an AI singing preview and exports MIDI and audio. If notes are what you need, use a tool like that, or transcribe a Lyro take by ear.
• You cannot hum a tune and have it sung with your words. The melody is the model’s. Lyro will not copy a hummed melody note for note, and in voice memo to song a hum stays a hum.
• You cannot fix one phrase. A run gives a whole new melody, not a changed bar. If you like the verse of one take and the chorus of another, sing the combination yourself.
• The melody is new on every take, and changing a single word of the lyrics gives a different one.
• Words can slip. On a full song, a line can be skipped or changed. Check the result against your text. The vocal model on your own beat sings the words it is given.
• You pick a voice type, not a singer. There is no voice cloning, and you cannot name a real artist as a style. Harmonies, doubles and ad-libs are not stacked for you.
• Not for exact control. If a particular melody has to be sung to the letter, you need to write and sing it yourself, or work with a composer.

Credits, plans and rights

A song from your lyrics costs 4 credits on Lyro High or 5 credits on Lyro Extra, up to 3 minutes, and the Lyrics box takes up to 3,000 characters. A vocal on your own beat is on every plan, Starter included ($14 a month for 80 credits). There is no free plan or trial. If a job fails, its credits come back automatically. See the pricing page.

Lyrics you wrote stay yours, and Lyro claims no rights in what you type or upload. Every paid plan includes a commercial licence for what Lyro generates, and downloads carry an ID3 tag declaring them AI-generated. We do not promise that AI-generated audio is exclusive or protected by copyright. A melody you sing yourself is human-authored work. See music rights. Only paste lyrics you wrote or have permission to use.