Pair your video tile in Google Meet to improve accessibility for users with language interpreters
Google is introducing tile pairing for Google Meet, which will allow you to pair your video tile with another meeting participant's tile. Once you pair your tile, other meeting participants will see both tiles shown next to each other. Both pairing partners will have their borders outlined in blue when speaking. Tile pairing will be indicated in the meeting captions as well.
Announcing third-party extensions for Duet AI in Workspace, Salesforce as first partner
Google is beginning to open up Duet AI in Google Workspace to third-party ecosystem partners, starting with Salesforce. Connecting Duet AI with more of your unique business context and workflows will allow it to become an even more helpful collaboration partner. Your interactions with Duet AI will stay within your organization and your existing Google Workspace privacy protections are automatically applied.
Collaborate more seamlessly with live pointers in Google Slides
To boost collaboration in Google Slides, Google is introducing live pointers, a new feature that allows you and your colleagues to see each other’s mouse pointers in real-time. With this update, co-creators can easily point out specific text or visual elements within a Slide in order to highlight important information and content.
Differentiate messages better with additional modernizations in Google Chat
Google is introducing message bubbles to enable users to more easily differentiate incoming versus outgoing messages in the Chat message stream. Each incoming message will have an independent message bubble aligned to one side with a solid color background, and each outgoing message will have an independent message bubble aligned to the other side with a different color background.
Sometimes, squeezing all of your writing onto traditional paper sizes in Google Docs can end up being more distracting than useful. Pageless format is a setting in Google Docs that removes all page breaks, so you can continuously scroll and write uninterrupted. In this setup, line breaks and images also adjust to your screen size, and wide tables are easily viewed by scrolling left and right.