Google LLC is adding new artificial intelligence features to Google Workspace that will help users write emails, turn slideshows into videos and perform other tasks.
The capabilities debuted today at the company’s Google I/O developer event.
The first set of AI enhancements will become available in Gmail. Gemini, the built-in AI assistant, can now generate emails using files that the user stores in Google Drive. Gemini could, for example, use a Google Doc that contains product information to automatically answer product inquiries from customers.
“It also adapts to your typical tone — whether crisp and formal or warm and conversational — so your replies sound authentically like you,” Yulie Kwon Kim, vice president of product for Google Workspace, detailed in a blog post today.
Another new Gemini feature promises to ease the task of booking appointments. According to Google, the assistant can help users share a self-service booking page in email threads. The capability is joined by a tool that resembles a search bar and makes it possible to delete or archive emails in bulk by entering natural language prompts.
“Simply tell Gemini what you want to do (e.g., ‘Delete all of my unread emails from The Groomed Paw from last year’) and watch as it helps you manage and declutter your inbox with a single click,” Kwon Kim explained.
For the version of Gemini that is embedded in Google Docs, Google will release a feature called source-grounded writing. To use it, customers must embed links to spreadsheets or other information sources in the document that they’re editing. From there, Gemini will only use the linked information sources to generate writing suggestions.
Gemini’s new text processing features will be joined by a set of multimodal AI capabilities.
Google Meet is gaining a setting that allows users to translate a speaker’s words into a different language in near real-time. Google says that the technology is capable of “preserving your voice, tone, and expression.” The company will initially only make the feature available in the consumer version of Meet, with an “early testing” program set to open for businesses later this year.
Google Vids, a video editing service that the company debuted last year, has also received an AI update. The Alphabet unit is rolling out a capability that can turn slideshows into videos complete with AI-generated voiceover. The other new features in Vids can automatically remove filler words and unnecessary pauses from recordings, fix uneven audio quality and add AI avatars to videos.
Vids, Docs, Slides and a number of other services in Google Workspace are all being integrated with the company’s new Imagen 4 image generation model. It’s the latest addition to a series of AI image generators that the company introduced in 2022.
Imagen 4 includes a mode that allows users to generate images up to 10 times faster than its predecessor. According to Google, the feature is useful for tasks such as quickly testing different variations of an interface design. Imagen 4 also has a higher maximum output resolution than its predecessor and is better at tasks such as rendering text.
The Imagen 4 integration is available today. Most of the other new AI features will roll out in June or next quarter.
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