Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #152 / 13-MAY-26

Add avatars when you convert presentations to Vids

You can already convert your Google Slides content into Google Vids, and use Gemini to generate scripts, voiceovers, and background music. Now, you can add a spokesperson to your videos using AI avatars when importing content from Slides. Avatars are dynamically inserted throughout the imported slides to make the generated Vid feel more relatable and engaging.

Use NotebookLM in your Google Workspace Studio flows

Google is integrating NotebookLM into Google Workspace Studio. This enhancement lets you use your existing notebooks as an AI knowledge source for your automations. You can use the new Ask NotebookLM step to generate grounded responses based on the insights, summaries, and research in your notebooks.

How AI is giving small businesses a major advantage

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than 80% of small businesses using AI reported higher sales, increased profits, and larger teams in 2025. AI is helping small businesses save time, spot important trends, improve service, and enter new markets.

Improvements To Help Me Write in Gmail

The “Help me write” feature in Gmail is evolving into an even more helpful partner that can pull in your natural voice and personalized context to get you closer to the perfect draft every time. Now, Google has added two new personalization enhancements: topic contextualization and tone and style personalization.

View the Google Meet live stream automatically if an adaptive meeting becomes full

Google is making it simpler to join large Google Meet events. When an adaptive meeting reaches its maximum capacity for meeting contributors, any additional users attempting to join the main call are automatically redirected to join the live stream instead. Here, they can still interact using reactions, chat, polls and Q&A.

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