Text to song: the sentence becomes the record.
“Text to song” is the simplest way to describe what Octa does. You write a line in plain words — a mood, a story, a genre, a voice — and the engine returns a complete song: lyrics, melody, arrangement, real sung vocals, a finished mix and cover art. No loops to assemble, no MIDI, no vocal to record unless you want your own voice on it.
01What “text to song” actually means
Three different things get called text-to-music. Text to speech reads words aloud without music. Text to loop generates a short instrumental bed you still have to build a song around. Text to song — what this page is about — takes a description and produces a song: a structure with verses and a chorus, a vocal that sings words, and a master you could publish.
Octa is in the third category. One brief drives everything: the same sentence that sets the genre also shapes the lyrics, the voice and the artwork, so the result feels like one decision rather than parts glued together. The engineering behind that is in AI music, explained.
A loop is a beginning. A song is the whole thing.
02From your sentence to a song, step by step
- You write the line“slow r&b about missing someone at 3 a.m., warm keys, soft female vocal” is a complete brief.
- Lyrics are written — or yours are usedLeave the lyrics box empty and the engine writes them to fit; paste your own and they are performed verbatim.
- Composition and arrangementTempo, key, chords, sections and instrumentation are planned from the brief, not picked from a preset list.
- A real vocal sings itMale, female or automatic, in English, French, Japanese, Hindi or Indonesian.
- Mix, master, artworkRelease-ready loudness and balance, plus 4K cover art generated from the same sentence.
From pressing Generate to a playable track: about a minute. The song lands in your library on the web and in the Android app at the same time.
03What to type: five sentences that work
Good briefs carry five ingredients: genre, subject, one or two instruments, tempo or energy, and the voice. You do not need all five every time, but each one you add removes a guess the engine would otherwise make for you.
- text to song test: upbeat pop about a first road trip, handclaps, bright synths, female vocal
- dark trap about a night drive, sliding 808s, icy bells, male vocal, 140 BPM
- acoustic folk ballad about leaving a small town, fingerpicked guitar, harmonica in the bridge
- lo-fi hip hop for late-night studying, dusty drums, rain on the window, no vocals
- anthemic rock about getting back up, driving guitars, gang vocals on the chorus
Describe the style rather than naming an artist — artist names are blocked by the content filter and the credit is refunded. Thirty-six more lines, sorted by genre, are in AI music prompts that work.
04Text to song with your own lyrics
If you already have words, the sentence still matters: it sets the genre, tempo and voice, and the lyrics fill the melody. Tag your sections — [Verse], [Chorus], [Bridge] — so the arrangement follows your structure, keep lines short enough to sing in one breath, and repeat the chorus in full rather than writing “chorus again”.
The engine performs what you paste. If a line is unsingable, it will still be sung, just awkwardly — the lyrics guide shows how to write lines that land.
05Text to song in your own voice
In the Android app, MY VOICE records about a minute of you singing over a guided beat while the lyrics scroll, builds a private voice profile, and from then on any generated song can be sung by you. It is the difference between “a song about my sister” and “my sister hearing me sing it”. Details, limits and the pitch-correction model behind it are on the AI singing voice generator page.
06What you get and what you own
Every text-to-song result includes the full track, the lyrics as sung, the cover art and a shareable page. Songs generated from your own prompts and lyrics are yours to use under the app’s terms — streaming, video, sync, a demo for your band. Covers of protected recordings are blocked at the fingerprint stage and refunded, so nothing in your library carries someone else’s copyright.
07Questions
No. Text to speech reads words aloud with no music. Text to song writes and performs a complete song: melody, arrangement, sung vocals, mix and master. Octa does the second.
About a minute from pressing Generate to a playable, mastered track. Cover art is generated in the same pass.
Yes. Paste your lyrics and describe the style in one sentence; the words are performed verbatim. Tag sections with [Verse] and [Chorus] so the arrangement follows your structure.
English, French, Japanese, Hindi and Indonesian. You can also generate fully instrumental tracks.
Your first song is free with no card, in the browser or the Android app. After that, songs come from a subscription (from $2.99 a week or $6.99 a month) or a track pack, and failed generations are refunded.
Songs generated from your own prompts and lyrics are yours to use under the app’s terms, including streaming platforms and video. Protected recordings cannot be covered; those requests are blocked and refunded.
One sentence. One song.
Type the line you have in your head and hear it as a finished record in about a minute.
Your first song is free · No card required