Google wants you to talk to Docs, Keep, and Gmail instead of typing
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Google announced voice-based prompting for Docs, Keep, and Gmail at I/O 2026, letting users create documents, organise notes, and search their inboxes by speaking instead of typing. The features are powered by Gemini AI and roll out this summer for premium subscribers and Workspace business users.
Google is betting that the future of productivity software starts with your voice, not your keyboard. At its I/O 2026 developer conference on Monday, the company unveiled voice-based prompting features for Docs, Keep, and Gmail, all powered by its Gemini AI models.
The headline feature is Docs Live, which lets users create and edit documents entirely by speaking. In a demo, Google showed a user verbally instructing the tool to pull résumé details from Drive, layer in event logistics from an email thread, and sprinkle in a few humorous anecdotes, all in a single, unscripted stream of speech. The idea is that voice...
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