Recently, Google Messages began testing Gemini, an AI chatbot for select beta testers to compose messages, generate ideas, organize events, or simply join conversations. Now, Google has updated its phone assistant Gemini to improve its capabilities with voice navigation for Maps. Accordingly, users can initiate navigation on Google Maps with simple voice commands.
Use Gemini for Google Maps voice navigation
According to the report, the latest update lets users say “Navigate to [location]” or “Take me to [Santa Monica]”, and Gemini presents a route summary to Santa Monica, travel time, and distance, after which automatic navigation starts. From the beginning, making it simple. user experience.
Additionally, Gemini Advanced now supports voice commands to set reminders and calendar events, provided the Workspace extension is activated in the app settings. However, availability of this feature may vary by country and we expect it to come to the US first.
The report further claims that the update also introduces an ‘auto submit’ feature for voice commands, eliminating the need to press the ‘send’ button. In addition to these advances, the capability to control media playback via voice commands for Gemini is also coming soon.
