AI song generator from lyrics: how to prepare and check your words

If you have already written the words, a poem, a shayari, a bhajan or a full song, you do not want an AI to invent new lyrics. You want it to compose a melody around your lines and sing them as written. That works well, but how you format the lyrics makes a real difference to what you hear.

This guide is about that preparation and about checking the result line by line. If you only have an idea and no words yet, start from a description instead.

Section tags tell the song where each part goes. Put each tag on its own line above the lines it covers. The common ones are [Verse 1], [Verse 2], [Chorus] and [Bridge]. A simple, reliable shape is verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus.

Write the full chorus every time it comes back. Do not write "Chorus x2" or "repeat chorus"; the words on the page are what gets sung.

Each line becomes roughly one musical phrase. A very long line has to be crammed into the same space, so the singer rushes or swallows words. If you cannot say a line comfortably in one breath, split it in two. Try to keep lines within a verse a similar length, so the melody can repeat naturally.

Open the song with real words rather than a line of "aaa" or "la la", and keep the chorus shorter and simpler than the verses so it is easy to remember.

Hindi and many other Indian-language songs can be typed in their own script or in Roman letters. Both are accepted. Native script, such as Devanagari for Hindi or Gurmukhi for Punjabi, removes guesswork about how a word should sound. Roman spelling is ambiguous: "main" can be the Hindi word or the English one, and "hai", "hain" and "he" are spelt differently by different people.

If you write in Roman letters, be consistent: spell a word the same way every time, and use common spellings ("pyaar", "dil", "zindagi"). If a line keeps coming out wrong, rewriting just that line in native script is often the quickest fix.

Hinglish and Punjabi-English songs are normal, and they work when you are deliberate. Keep English words in Roman letters, keep the Hindi or Punjabi in whichever script you chose, and set the language picker to the main language of the song. An English hook such as "You are my sunshine" inside a Hindi song is fine. Random English words scattered through a Punjabi verse are more likely to sound off.

The language picker matters more than anything else here, because the singer follows it. A Punjabi song with the picker on Hindi will not sound right. On Pro and Creator the picker also includes Kannada, Malayalam and Haryanvi.

Open Create, switch to the Custom tab, choose Write Own and paste your lyrics. Set the language, add a short style description such as "Bollywood romantic ballad, female vocal, piano and bansuri, slow", and create. A song is usually ready in 2 to 4 minutes.

Zori5 Turbo costs 10 credits and Zori5.5 XL costs 15. Because you are pasting your own lyrics, free users can use XL, so the 15 signup credits cover exactly one XL song. Songs run up to 3 minutes on Free and Pro and up to 5 minutes on Creator. If your text is very long, such as a chalisa, an aarti or a qawwali, Long Forms on Pro and Creator sings up to about 12 minutes for 30 credits.

Read along with your lyrics while you listen, once all the way through. Autunes also transcribes every finished vocal and compares it with what you wrote, flagging lines that came out wrong, so you know where to look.

Your original lyrics remain yours. Only paste words you have the right to use; a film song's lyrics belong to their writer and publisher. Songs made on a paid plan, or licensed with the ₹9 single-song licence on Free, can be used commercially and released through any distributor, with no royalty and no credit to Autunes required.