Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep - TechCrunch

Google is launching conversational AI features within Docs, Gmail, and Keep that let users ask questions about their inboxes and documents as well as do tasks using natural-language queries and dictation.

The company previewed these features in May during its Google I/O conference. The company is dubbing these features Docs Live, Gmail Live, and Keep Live.

In Gmail, instead of typing in a search box, you can ask questions to a Gemini-powered AI assistant about the contents of your inbox. Users will see a live transcript while chatting with the assistant.

While using Docs, users can describe what they want to write, and the AI assistant will help them create a first draft. It can also get information from Gmail, Drive, chat, and the web to create drafts.

Keep Live, meanwhile, lets you use it as a scratchpad to jot down notes without typing, and can even pull together recipes and lists if you tell it to, for example, list ingredients to make a shakshouka.

Gmail Live is available for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra customers. Docs Live and Keep Live are available for Google AI Pro and Ultra users. All these features will be available in English on iOS and Android. Google said it will roll out these features to Workplace Business customers soon.

Google has been introducing voice-based features across its apps. It added cross-app dictation to its Mac app in April. And the Pixel 11 smartphones got a Gemini-powered dictation tool called Rambler last month, which removes filler words from your speech. In August, the company introduced the Gemini 3.5 Transcribe model for speech-to-text use cases.

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