Duet AI for Google Workspace, Google's generative AI productivity tool, is now generally available.
Duet AI, which has been in testing with thousands of businesses, aims to streamline workflows by providing meeting assistance, document and conversation summaries, a chatbot for Google Chat, and personalised suggestions for Gmail responses.
Aparna Pappu, GM and Vice President at Google Workspace, wrote in a blog post:
With the introduction of Duet AI, we added AI as a real-time collaborator. Since its launch, thousands of companies and more than a million trusted testers have used Duet AI as a powerful collaboration partner that can act as a coach, source of inspiration, and productivity booster — all while ensuring every user and organization has control over their data."
Duet AI for Google Workspace is priced at $30 per month per person, but users can take advantage of a no-cost trial, which is also now available.
Duet AI's Comprehensive Feature Set
One broad case study of Duet's capabilities that Google outlines is of a financial analyst compiling a presentation for a quarterly report. The analyst could prompt Duet to analyse the business's Google Sheets, P&L Docs, Monthly Business Review Slides, and relevant emails from regional sales leads — and Duet would subsequently produce a presentation with text, charts, and images based on a user's content in Drive and Gmail.
Another use case is as a meeting assistant, with Duet AI being implemented in Google Meet "to help ensure you look and sound your best with studio look, studio lighting, and studio sound," as Pappu described it. This means in practice that Duet automatically adjusts lighting, sound, framing and "look" so that users have the most professional appearance and background.
Google Meet is also introducing dynamic tiles and face detection, providing individual participants in a meeting room with their video tiles and names. Additionally, automatic translated captions for 18 languages is a feature being introduced. Meet will automatically recognise when another language is spoken and display the translation in real-time.
Duet will also have meeting note-taking and summarising capabilities — its "take notes for me" function will record notes, action items and real-time video snippets before sending a summary to meeting participants after the call ends. Meeting latecomers can also benefit from a "summary so far" feature, which can catch them up on key missed information. At the same time, the "attend for me" feature enables users who can't attend the meeting to deliver their insights and thoughts on a topic anyway.
