Gemini app finally expands to audio files

Google made 3 large updates to its Gemini-powered products connected Monday: The Gemini app present accepts audio files; Search tin grip 5 caller languages; and NotebookLM creates reports successful the signifier of blog posts, survey guides, quizzes, and more. 

According to a Monday post connected X by Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, audio record compatibility was the “#1 request” to the Gemini app. 

Free Gemini users max retired astatine 10 minutes of audio, and five escaped prompts each day. AI Pro oregon AI Ultra users, meanwhile, tin upload audio up to 3 hours successful length. All Gemini prompts accommodate up to 10 files crossed assorted record formats, including wrong ZIP files. 

Additionally, Google Search’s AI Mode has rolled retired 5 caller connection options: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, acknowledgment to the integration of Gemini 2.5 with Search, according to a institution blog: “With this expansion, much radical tin present usage AI Mode to inquire analyzable questions successful their preferred language, portion exploring the web much deeply.” 

The Gemini-powered NotebookLM bundle is besides getting an update successful the signifier of caller study styles successful implicit 80 languages based connected a user’s uploaded documents, files, and different media. 

(While the Gemini app is conscionable present getting audio, NotebookLM already had that capability, positioning itself arsenic a probe instrumentality that helps find patterns successful files of antithetic formats.)

The modular study formats see survey guides, briefing docs, and blog posts. Flashcards and quizzes are besides included successful the latest NotebookLM update. Users tin take the self-created format and set the structure, tone, and benignant of the report. The diagnostic “should beryllium 100%” disposable by the extremity of this week, according to a institution remark to a post connected X.

Google has been connected a dizzying spree of AI-related features successful the past month. Gemini began automatically recalling idiosyncratic details and preferences from past conversations successful August, the aforesaid period that escaped users gained entree to Workspace’s video procreation bundle Vids. In September, Photos upgraded to the latest video procreation bundle Veo 3 and gave escaped users the quality to make soundless 4-second agelong videos from their ain personal, inactive pictures.