Google's voice-driven Gemini features inside three Workspace apps — Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live — so you can talk to your inbox, dictate a document, and turn spoken brain-dumps into organized notes, hands-free.
Last verified · 2026-09-04 · by Moe Ameen
Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live are three voice features that put Gemini's real-time spoken conversation mode directly inside Google Workspace apps. Google began rolling them out on September 3, 2026. Instead of typing, you talk. Gmail Live, opened from a new Live icon in the Gmail search bar, lets you hold a natural spoken conversation with your inbox to pull precise details — a gate number, what's on this week — with follow-ups and topic switches mid-conversation. Docs Live, launched from a "Create with voice" option on the floating action button, is a hands-free thought partner and co-writer that helps organize your thoughts, structure a document, and, with your permission, pull relevant material from your Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web to reach a first draft faster. Keep Live listens to spoken "brain dumps" and turns them into organized notes and lists, working on both new and existing notes with voice editing commands.
Availability differs by app and is worth checking before you build a habit around it. Gmail Live runs on Android and iOS in English for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers; Docs Live is on Android and iOS but limited to AI Pro and Ultra; Keep Live is Android-only, for AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra. All three are listed as coming soon for Google Workspace business customers. Treat the exact tiers, platforms, and languages as still moving and confirm against Google before relying on any single detail.
Under the hood these features run on Gemini 3.5 Live, the voice model Google names on the launch page — part of the same family of real-time conversational voice technology behind the standalone Gemini app's free Gemini Live mode, though not the identical model version. The honest creator framing is that all three are excellent capture, drafting, and organizing tools — but their output is a spoken answer, an organized note, or a Google Doc. None of them produces a captioned video, a brand-exact carousel, or a scheduled post, and none publishes anything to a platform.
The real strength here is that the capture happens where you already work, by voice, with zero new app to adopt: Keep Live banks the idea, Docs Live turns it into a first draft, Gmail Live surfaces the detail or the customer thread that sparked it. But every one of those stops at raw material. A note, a Doc, and an inbox answer have no face, no captions, no aspect ratios, no brand styling, and no route onto your platforms. [Kompozy](/) is the layer that takes that material and produces the content. Drop a Keep Live list or a Docs Live draft into Kompozy as a source and it becomes a [Persona Short](/glossary/persona-shorts) — a face-locked HeyGen avatar delivering the script with auto-captions burned in — or a Persona HeyGen scene-built video, each reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9.
A concrete example the three features make easy: use Gmail Live to pull the gist of a long customer thread, drop that insight into Kompozy, and it becomes a [Carousel](/glossary/hyperframes) answering the question publicly plus an [email newsletter](/glossary/output-buckets) — both rewritten in your [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) voice rather than Gemini's generic tone. From there the same source can fan into a blog article, Quote Graphics, and platform-native text posts, all held to one look through [HyperFrames](/glossary/hyperframes) and scheduled across the eight social platforms plus blog and email on [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot), with a per-post review pipeline. You capture it hands-free in Workspace; Kompozy makes it a face, a caption, a schedule, and a published post. For the standalone version of this voice mode, see [Gemini Voice (Gemini Live)](/ai-tools/gemini-voice).
They are three voice features that embed Gemini's spoken conversation mode inside Google Workspace apps, rolling out from September 3, 2026. Gmail Live talks to your inbox to pull precise details, Docs Live is a hands-free co-writer that drafts and structures documents, and Keep Live turns spoken brain-dumps into organized notes and lists.
Gmail Live is on Android and iOS for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra; Docs Live is on Android and iOS for AI Pro and Ultra only; Keep Live is Android-only for AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra. All three are coming soon for Google Workspace business customers. The rollout is ongoing, so confirm current details on Google.
No. They produce spoken answers, organized notes, and Google Doc drafts — not captioned video, brand-exact carousels, or scheduled posts, and they publish to no platform. To turn a Keep note or a Docs draft into finished, published content, pair them with a content engine like Kompozy.
Capture it by voice in Keep Live or Docs Live, then copy the note or draft into Kompozy. Kompozy rewrites it in your Persona Brief voice and renders it as a Persona Short or HeyGen avatar video with burned-in captions, reframes it for each platform, and schedules the post across the eight social platforms plus blog and email.