Google brings more conversational features to Gmail, Docs and Keep

Google thinks it’s good to talk out loud, and to that end it’s bringing more conversational features to Gmail, Docs, and Keep in the form of Live. Gmail Live, for example, will let you ask a natural language question in your inbox so you don’t have to search for the keyword yourself. In his example, let’s say you’re rushing to the airport and need to know your gate number, now you can simply ask the system “What is the gate number of my flight?” » hoping that the system is not hallucinating. In many ways, it’s a lot like Ask Gemini, but each connected to the specific app in question.

Likewise, Docs Live lets you express your initial ideas for a document that the system will then organize for you. With your permission, it will then use this structure and dig through your Gmail and Drive to add all the relevant details from your own notes and communications. If you’re feeling brave enough, you can even have the system pull any relevant information from the Internet. It’s the same situation in Keep, where you can dictate reminders to the system to impose some form of structure on it. Whatever you spew into your mind, Google says Keep will now be able to understand, organize, and create reminders and prompts for whatever is relevant.

As for when you’ll be able to take advantage of these features, Google says they will be rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer. Around the same time, it will be available in preview to Google Workspace business customers.