As part of the Made by Google presentation, Gemini Live, a new voice assistant, was introduced. It will be installed by default on the new Pixel 9 and will also be available on iOS and Android for all Gemini Advanced subscribers. For now, you can only speak to the assistant in English.
Gemini Live allows users to freely communicate with the assistant from their smartphones. Users will be able to make requests for simple tasks, discuss gift selection, job search, and much more. To make the conversation more comfortable, users will have 10 new voices to choose from.
In addition, the conversation with the assistant can be paused and resumed later, and Live will work in hands-free mode, so the conversation can continue in the background while the smartphone is locked.
Over the next few weeks, Google will also launch new extensions, including Keep, Tasks, Utilities, and YouTube Music, to better integrate Gemini into the system. This will allow the assistant to make even more different requests for the company's services without having to open other programs.
The company gives one example of such a use case: a user can ask to find a recipe that was sent to Gmail, add a grocery list to Keep, and create a playlist with 90s songs for a party.
As befits a mobile assistant, Gemini will be fully integrated into Android and you can start a conversation with it, for example, with the phrase Hey Google. After that, it will be possible to ask what is happening on the screen, what the YouTube video is about, find a location on maps, and much more.