Suno leans into customization with v5.5 | The Verge

EntertainmentAINewsSuno leans into customization with v5.5Its latest AI music-making model can be trained on your own voice and songs.Its latest AI music-making model can be trained on your own voice and songs.by Terrence O'BrienMar 28, 2026, 6:33 PM UTCLinkShareGiftSlop yourself. Image: SunoTerrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget.Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It includes three new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models.In the release notes, Suno says that Voices is its most requested feature. It lets users train the vocal model on their own voice. They can upload clean accapellas, finished tracks with backing music, or just sing directly into the mic on their phone or laptop. The cleaner and higher quality the recording, the less data is required. And to prevent someone from simply stealing another person’s voice, Suno requires the user to also speak a verification phrase. Though, this might be possible to fool with existing AI models of celebrity voices.Once the Voices feature is trained, users can then have an AI version of themselves sing on uploaded music or AI-generated outputs.To further personalize outputs, Custom Models allows users to train Suno on their own music. Users will nee...