Turn your voice into action with new productivity features in Gemini Live

What changed

Source summary

Google gave Gemini Live (its voice assistant) new hands-free productivity features: users can trigger multi-step tasks across Google Docs, Sheets, and Drive by voice, get a spoken "Daily Brief" summarising Gmail and Calendar each morning, manage their inbox (search, summarise, star, archive, delete) entirely by voice, and have Gemini remember past conversations and connect information across Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube. Users need to enable app connections in Gemini settings to use these features.

Why it matters to your work

Practical interpretation

If you use Gemini and want to cut down on manual admin, this is worth turning on: you can now ask Gemini out loud to draft a document, clear out your inbox, or read you a morning summary of your emails and calendar instead of typing it all yourself. You will need to go into Gemini's settings and switch on the relevant app connections (Gmail, Docs, etc.) first, since it is off by default.

When this could help

Useful now if you want to manage your morning routine, triage email, or kick off multi-step work tasks entirely by voice while commuting, cooking, or otherwise hands-free.

Gemini Live now includes Spark (multi-step task agent that works across Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the web, even when the app is closed), Daily Brief (spoken summary of Gmail and Calendar), hands-free inbox management (search, summarise, star, archive, delete by voice), and Personal Intelligence (recalls past conversations and draws on connected apps). All within a single voice conversation — Gemini routes to the right feature automatically.

How to get started

1. Tap the Live icon in the Gemini app and talk. For Spark tasks, describe multi-step work (e.g. 'outline my presentation in Docs based on last week's email thread'). For Daily Brief, ask 'What's my daily brief?' For inbox management, ask about urgent messages or say 'archive all newsletters from today'.

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Build it into your routine

SCALA suggested workflow

1. Voice morning brief

   Ask 'What's my daily brief?' each morning to hear your schedule and important emails, then voice-triage your inbox before you sit down at your desk.

What to check

• Spark requires Google AI Pro or higher. No pricing amounts, regional rollout timing, or country-specific availability are stated. Source ↗
• AI-generated summaries are labelled as experimental. Task concurrency limits for Spark are not documented. Source ↗