Gmail Live will make your inbox talk. With Docs Live and Keep Live, you can dictate documents and notes too.

After its spring unveiling at the I/O 2026 conference, the official launch is here. This week, Google is gradually rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live – three features that allow you to control your mail, documents, and notes with just your voice. Instead of typing and clicking, you simply tell the app what you need, and Gemini will handle the processing.

Gmail Live: Talk to your inbox

Gmail Live targets moments when you don’t have time to sift through email threads. You’ll find the new Live icon directly in the Gmail search bar; tapping it will start a live conversation with your inbox. You can ask in natural language – for example, what your flight gate number is or what’s happening at your child’s school this week – and the assistant will search your mail and respond directly, as Google describes.

The conversation maintains context. You can ask follow-up questions without repeating the original query, and you can interrupt the conversation and switch to another topic at any time. The full-screen interface displays a transcript and links to source emails, allowing you to easily verify the answer.

Gmail Live is available with Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra plans on both Android and iPhones. However, the catch for the Czech audience is clear: the feature currently only works in English.

Docs Live will serve as a voice co-author

Google describes Docs Live as a thinking partner and co-author that helps you overcome a blank page. Instead of staring at an empty document, you have a conversation with it, and it builds structured text from your input – useful for a first draft of a summary, proposal, or offer. With your permission, it can pull information from Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web.

Before it starts writing, it will show a recap of what it found, allowing you to guide it. You can continuously add specific information or tell it how to format the text. In the Google Docs app, you launch the new feature via a floating button and the “Create with voice” option. However, Docs Live is more limited in availability than Gmail – it only works with the more expensive AI Pro and Ultra plans, again on both Android and iOS.

Keep Live transforms a chaotic stream of thoughts into notes

Keep Live is designed for moments when an idea flashes through your mind and you want to capture it before it disappears. You can dictate even a disjointed stream of thoughts, and the feature will process it in the background into a neat list or note, without you having to touch the keyboard. Keep will show a preview of what was created after a few seconds.

Gemini tries to understand your intent. For example, you can tell it to add ingredients for pasta with pesto to your shopping list, and the items will appear in the note automatically. In a single session, you can create multiple notes and then edit them by voice, even checking off completed items. Keep Live can also access existing notes: if you’ve already bought half your list and say you mustn’t forget bananas, it will simply add them to it.

However, there are two limitations. Keep Live is currently only available on Android and requires one of the paid Google AI Plus (updated version), Pro, or Ultra plans.

When and for how much can you expect the new features?

All three features began rolling out this week. They are expected to arrive for Google Workspace business customers “soon,” so for now, they are primarily aimed at regular subscribers. Under the hood, they are powered by Gemini Audio voice models, which Google first showcased at I/O.

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For Czech users, the price of admission is key. The cheapest Google AI Plus in our country was discounted to 149 Kč per month in June and added 400GB of storage – this is the lowest threshold to access Gmail Live and Keep Live. Docs Live requires the more expensive Pro or Ultra plans. And until Czech language support is rolled out, the main barrier will remain language rather than money.

Will you let your inbox and notes listen to your voice, or will you prefer to stick to typing?

Sources: Google, 9to5Google