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Gemini Voice Capabilities and Gemini Spark Coming to MacOS This Summer

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After dropping the Gemini app on MacOS in April, Google says it's bringing voice capabilities and the newly unveiled claw-like autonomous AI assistant Gemini Spark to the MacOS app in the coming months -- one of the many announcements that came during Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday morning.

Speaking from Google's Mountain View, California, HQ during Google I/O, Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, Gemini app and AI Studio, demonstrated how you can select a bunch of documents you've uploaded onto your MacBook -- in his example, he used paperwork related to his pets, like vaccination records and allergy lists -- and then long-press the function key and verbally dictate what you want the AI assistant to do with it.

The demonstration showed you can not only dictate an email relating to the documents (as well as requesting that it sound "friendly"), but at the same time also request...

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