{"slug": "google-now-lets-you-chat-with-gmail-docs-and-keep", "title": "Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep", "summary": "Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep, called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, which allow users to manage these apps by talking to them. The features, previewed at Google I/O in May, are now available on mobile platforms globally in English starting today, with Gmail Live available on iOS and Android for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra plan users, Docs Live and Keep Live coming to AI Pro and Ultra plans, and Keep Live being Android-only. All three are 'coming soon' for Workspace business customers.", "body_md": "Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that allow you to manage the apps by talking to them. The real time conversational capabilities are called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, and like the [Gemini Live](/2024/8/13/24219736/gemini-live-hands-on-pixel-event) experience for Google’s chatbot, aim to make it easier to note down or find specific information when you’re on the move or unable to do so manually.\n\n# Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep\n\nThe AI voice features provide a hands-free way to fetch information, summarize, and transcribe.\n\nThe AI voice features provide a hands-free way to fetch information, summarize, and transcribe.\n\nGmail Live is primarily designed to surface details from your inbox without you having to dig through lengthy email threads using keywords or subject lines. For example, Google says that you can ask questions like ““when is my kid’s next school event?,” and the voice assistant will pull that information from wherever it was sent to your Gmail inbox and feed a summarized version of it back to you verbally, while linking the email sources in the on-screen transcript. You can ask Gmail Live follow up questions without starting a new conversation, and interrupt it mid-sentence if you need to pivot to something else.\n\nDocs Live can help to format your ideas into structured documents based on conversational descriptions of what you need, such as you asking it to summarize longer documents or turn them into business proposals. If granted permission, it can also pull information from your\n\nGmail, Drive, Chat, and the web to better personalize its outputs. And for Keep Live, you can transcribe by talking naturally and Gemini will contextualize your notes without requiring specific words or explanations, such as asking it to add “ingredients for pesto” to your shopping list.\n\nThese features were previewed at [Google I/O in May](/tech/932973/google-gmail-live-ai-keep-docs-io-2026), but they’re now rolling out to mobile platforms globally in English starting today. Gmail Live is available on iOS and Android for users on Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra plans, Docs Live and Keep Live are coming to AI Pro and Ultra plans, but Keep Live is Android only, while Docs is available on both iOS and Android platforms. All three are “coming soon” for Workspace business customers, according to Google.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-now-lets-you-chat-with-gmail-docs-and-keep", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/989508/google-gmail-docs-keep-live-voice-modes-gemini", "published_at": "2026-09-03 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 16:22:18.565843+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "Gmail", "Docs", "Keep", "Gemini Live", "Google AI Plus", "Google AI Pro", "Google AI Ultra"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-now-lets-you-chat-with-gmail-docs-and-keep", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-now-lets-you-chat-with-gmail-docs-and-keep.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-now-lets-you-chat-with-gmail-docs-and-keep.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-now-lets-you-chat-with-gmail-docs-and-keep.jsonld"}}