Youka lets you create karaoke song versions of any YouTube video

If you love singing along your favourite songs then you will love Youka, a website that lets you create karaoke songs out of any YouTube video as long as the lyrics are available online.

Youka, short for “YouTube to karaoke,” works by separating vocals from tracks and pulls lyrics from sites online. The website was first spotted by Andy Baio, a technologist who noted that the service uses Spleeter, to isolate vocals from songs.

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The service can cater to more than 108 languages so it’ll work on non-English songs as well. It also shows the option of listening to the karaoke version of the song with no vocals and just the instrumentals, or the a cappella version with vocals only.

However, the service is not completely perfected because you can hear a slight voice in the background but it is quite effective.

Baio also revealed that you can create a karaoke version of an instrumental track which you can not find in any karaoke book.

It is definitely legal and the only logistical constraint at present according to Youka’s creator is that the site is hosted on $2,000 in credits from a cloud provider, and running the site is expensive.

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The creator said they plan to open-source the site “before the lawsuit,” so you should utilise this service if you love yourself a karaoke night.

The article originally published on The Verge.