Following last week’s announcement, we are now seeing Gemini’s new “Talk Live about this” capability on the Pixel 9 series.
You can now talk to Gemini Live about images, files, and YouTube videos. Conversations were previously limited to general knowledge.
To start, launch the floating Gemini overlay (not the app) for a new suggestion chip above the existing “Ask about…” button:
- In YouTube, you’ll see “Talk Live about video”
- In Files by Google, it’s “Talk Live about PDF”
- With images, “Talk Live about this” appears
To talk about images, you cannot use the “Ask about screen” shortcut (which automatically takes a screenshot). Rather, you have to use the ‘plus’ menu to upload from your gallery or take a new picture. (This seems like a rather arbitrary distinction.)
After tapping, you’re taken to the Gemini Live interface with a preview of what you’re talking about appearing above the usual blue/purple sound waves. It’s a pretty straightforward experience from there.
On initial use, Gemini explains how you can “Long press any prompt to learn more about them.” Doing so reveals the “Turn off/on auto-submit” preference. When disabled, the “Talk Live” button will not appear until you manually submit content.
- All screen actions except “Ask about…” will automatically submit the content on your screen to Gemini when you tap them.
- To turn off auto-submit, you can press and hold on a suggestion chip then tap Turn off auto-submit. To enable auto-submit, you can press and hold on the “Ask about…” chip then tap Turn on auto-submit.
We’re seeing Talk (Gemini) Live on our Pixel 9 devices running Google app 16.3.32, which is currently in beta, this afternoon. It should also be rolling out to the Galaxy S24, while S25 owners will have it out of the box at launch. It will officially “expand to more Android devices in the coming weeks.”
This comes ahead of Project Astra, which will let you share your screen and stream video in real-time while talking to Gemini Live.
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