Gemini Voice Capabilities and Gemini Spark Coming to MacOS This Summer
Google is set to enhance its Gemini app for MacOS by adding voice capabilities and the new AI assistant, Gemini Spark, this summer. During the Google I/O 2026 event, a demonstration showcased how users can interact with the app using voice commands to manage documents. The app allows for complex tasks, such as drafting emails and creating tables from selected files, all through verbal instructions.
- ▪Google announced the addition of voice capabilities and Gemini Spark to the Gemini app for MacOS.
- ▪The app allows users to manage documents and perform tasks using voice commands.
- ▪Gemini's features include drafting emails and creating tables from selected files.
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After dropping the Gemini app on MacOS in April, Google says it's bringing voice capabilities and the newly unveiled claw-like autonomous AI assistant Gemini Spark to the MacOS app in the coming months -- one of the many announcements that came during Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday morning.Speaking from Google's Mountain View HQ during Google I/O, Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, Gemini app and AI Studio, demonstrated how you can select a bunch of documents you've uploaded onto your MacBook -- in his example, he used paperwork related to his pets, like vaccination records and allergy lists -- and then long-press the function key and verbally dictate what you want the AI assistant to do with it.The demonstration showed you can not only dictate an email relating to the documents (as well as…
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