Google Launches Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live Voice Features Across Productivity Apps

Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep

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 first 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.

Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep

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 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. Gmail 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. Docs 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 Gmail, 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. These features were previewed at Google I/O in May, 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.

Google rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live

Following the announcement at I/O 2026, Google is rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live this week. After testing in recent months, these voice capabilities are now generally available. Gmail Live lets you talk to your inbox. Instead of manually searching for information and reading through threads, Gemini lets you have a "natural, spoken conversation with your inbox to pull precise information." You can ask follow-up questions without repeating the context, and Gmail Live can be interrupted at any time to switch topics without starting a new session. The fullscreen interface shows a transcript and links to the source emails. To launch, tap the new Live icon in the Gmail search bar. Gmail Live is available with Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra on Android and iOS in English worldwide. Google positions Docs Live as a "hands-free thought partner and co-writer" that helps you quickly create a first draft for summaries, proposals, and more. Gemini can draw from information in your Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web. It will show a recap of the information before proceeding to generate the document. You can ask Docs Live to add specific information and format as needed. In the Google Docs app, tapping the FAB (floating action button) reveals a new "Create with voice" option to launch the experience. Docs Live is available with AI Pro and Ultra on Android and iOS. Finally, Keep Live listens to "audio brain dumps and processes them" to generate notes and lists. Gemini "understands your stream of consciousness," with Google Keep showing an inline preview of what it generated after a few seconds. You can tell Google Keep to put "ingredients for pesto pasta" in your shopping list, and "Gemini understands your intent and reflects it in the note." Multiple notes can be generated in the same session, while you can use your voice to edit, like telling Keep Live to check off items. Additionally, Keep Live isn't limited to new notes and can add information to existing ones: For example, if you already have a grocery list and you tell it you need to remember to get bananas, Keep will just add bananas to your existing list. Keep Live is available on Android and requires AI Pro and Ultra. These three features are "coming soon" to Google Workspace business customers.