Google’s Gemini app didn’t receive the same attention at launch as ChatGPT, but the Mountain View tech giant has kept on improving it ever since it debuted in 2024. One major improvement the company introduced was the voice-based interface, popularly known as Gemini Live.
Gemini Live has also improved since its debut, and Google has more in store for the future. It has started working on making Gemini Live a lot smarter than it’s today. And one of the ways the company is planning to do so is by introducing Personal Intelligence to Gemini Live, according to the latest APK teardown of 17.9.50.sa.arm64 Google app for Android version conducted by folks over at Android Authority.
Gemini Live may soon give you more personalized responses
For those who are not aware, Personal Intelligence came into being for Gemini users at the beginning of this year to give more personalized responses by connecting to users’ Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube history. It allows Gemini to access data from these apps and services to give users better responses.
Now, the strings revealed in the APK teardown suggest that Google wants to extend the same functionality to Gemini Live. You can check the string below.
<string name="assistant_robin_labs_personalization_description">Try a version of Gemini Live that uses your personal context.</string>
<string name="assistant_robin_labs_personalization_title">(Internal Prototype) Try a version of Gemini Live that uses past conversations and your connected apps to provide more personalized resopnses.</string>So, for example, if you have booked a flight but have forgotten the time, you’ll be able to use your voice in Gemini Live to quickly ask about it. Gemini Live will answer that by accessing the Gmail confirmation email that you received after successfully booking the flight ticket. The introduction of Personal Intelligence also means it’ll learn from your chats to better understand you.
However, the APK teardown didn’t shed light on when the feature might arrive for general users, nor does it say anything about whether it’ll be limited to paid users. Although not officially confirmed, we can safely assume that it’ll be available to all Gemini Live users, as it’s already free on Gemini.
That said, this doesn’t rule out Google introducing the feature as a preview for paid subscribers and then gradually rolling it out to everyone.
Gemini Live isn’t the only one getting the Personal Intelligence feature. We have also seen evidence that Google is working to add Personal Intelligence to NotebookLM. Hopefully, both NotebookLM and Gemini Live users will be able to use it sooner rather than later.
