Google made three main updates to its Gemini-powered merchandise on Monday: The Gemini app now accepts audio information; Search can deal with 5 new languages; and NotebookLM creates stories within the type of weblog posts, research guides, quizzes, and extra.
In response to a Monday post on X by Josh Woodward, vp of Google Labs and Gemini, audio file compatibility was the “#1 request” to the Gemini app.
Free Gemini customers max out at 10 minutes of audio, and five free prompts every day. AI Professional or AI Extremely customers, in the meantime, can add audio as much as three hours in size. All Gemini prompts accommodate as much as 10 information throughout numerous file codecs, together with inside ZIP information.
Moreover, Google Search’s AI Mode has rolled out 5 new language choices: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, because of the mixing of Gemini 2.5 with Search, in accordance with an organization blog: “With this growth, extra folks can now use AI Mode to ask advanced questions of their most popular language, whereas exploring the net extra deeply.”
The Gemini-powered NotebookLM software program can also be getting an update within the type of new report kinds in over 80 languages primarily based on a consumer’s uploaded paperwork, information, and different media.
(Whereas the Gemini app is simply now getting audio, NotebookLM already had that functionality, positioning itself as a analysis software that helps discover patterns in information of various codecs.)
The usual report codecs embody research guides, briefing docs, and weblog posts. Flashcards and quizzes are additionally included within the newest NotebookLM replace. Customers can select the self-created format and regulate the construction, tone, and magnificence of the report. The function “must be 100%” obtainable by the top of this week, in accordance with an organization remark to a post on X.