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Last month, we introduced Lyria 3 Pro in the Gemini app for select Business, Enterprise, and Education editions. Starting today, more users can create longer tracks with Lyria 3 Pro in the Gemini app.

Lyria 3 Pro allows users to create tracks up to three minutes long, with customization and creative control. Lyria 3 Pro better understands musical composition, so users can now prompt for specific elements like intros, verses, choruses, and bridges. It’s great for experimenting with different styles or adding custom tracks to projects, presentations, or assets.


Note: Lyria 3 Pro music generation in Gemini is currently available globally supporting languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French for users over the age of 18.

Getting started

  • Admins: The Gemini app and related in-app tools are controlled by the Generative AI settings in the Workspace Admin console. Music generation in Gemini is subject to these existing controls. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning the Gemini app on or off.
  • End users: End users will receive access to full-length songs automatically. To get started, select “Create music” from the tools menu. Visit the Help Center to learn more about limits.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Lyria 3 Pro is now available to the following Google Workspace customers and users with personal accounts who are 18 years or older and signed in to the Gemini app:
    • Business: Business Starter
    • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter
    • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
    • Consumer: Google AI Plus
    • Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Nonprofits
  • Lyria 3 Pro is already available to the following Google Workspace customers and users with personal accounts who are 18 years or older and signed in to the Gemini app:
    • Business: Business Standard and Plus
    • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
    • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education, AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access
    • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra

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We’re expanding Gmail end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Android and iOS devices for Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) users. With Gmail E2EE, your users can confidentially engage with your organization's most sensitive data from anywhere on their mobile devices while ensuring data remains compliant and with your organizations sovereignty and compliance requirements.

For the first time, users can compose and read these E2EE messages natively within the Gmail app on Android and iOS. No need to download extra apps or use mail portals. Users with a Gmail E2EE license can send an encrypted message to any recipient, regardless of what email address the recipient has.

  • Gmail recipients: If the recipient uses the Gmail app, the encrypted message will be delivered as a typical email thread to their inbox.
  • Guest recipients: If the recipient doesn’t have the Gmail app, they can seamlessly and securely read and reply in their own native browser, ensuring that all users have a simple and secure interface, regardless of their email service or device.
This launch combines the highest level of privacy and data encryption with a user-friendly experience for all users, enabling simple encrypted email for all customers from small businesses to enterprises and public sector.

Composing a E2EE message in Gmail

Recipient without Gmail app reading in browser

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Enterprise: Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on

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Now when you import Slides into Google Vids with Gemini enabled, you can see and edit your AI-generated scripts for each slide before completing the import, generating voiceovers, and applying animations. Previously, these edits could only be made after the import process was finished.


This update allows you to:

  • Refine your narrative early: Review and adjust the AI-generated script or choose to use your original speaker notes for each slide before the video draft is created.
  • Save time and effort: By making script adjustments up front, you reduce the need for back-and-forth editing once the video is in the main editor.
  • Customize voiceovers: Ensure the generated voiceover perfectly matches your intended message by finalizing the text before the audio is generated.

Whether you are turning a sales deck into a quick pitch or transforming a lesson plan into an educational video, this change provides a more streamlined workflow for creating high-quality video content from your existing presentations.

Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: This feature will be ON by default and can be disabled by the user in the Convert Slides workflow. To see the script editing screen, users must have the "Include AI voiceover, script, and background music" toggle enabled. If disabled, Vids will automatically begin the import after selecting slides. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus, Teaching and Learning add-on
  • Consumer: Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra
  • Other Editions: Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits
  • AI Add-ons: AI Ultra Access; AI Expanded Access; Google AI Pro for Education

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Following our recent general availability launch for web, we are excited to announce that speech translation is now rolling out to the Meet Android and iOS apps. The feature allows audio to be translated to other languages in near-real-time, helping global teams communicate more naturally and removing language barriers.


More details
  • Language support: The feature supports bidirectional translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
  • Single language pair per meeting: Currently, only one language pair (e.g., English <-> Spanish) can be active in a meeting at a time. 
  • Meeting room hardware: Users in conference rooms can hear translations but their own speech will not be translated. 
  • Ongoing improvements: Users can expect visual updates to the user interface, as well as refinements to translation accuracy and nuance.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability 

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • AI Add-ons: AI Ultra Access, Google AI Pro for Education

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Last year, we stopped allowing restricted access on specific files and folders within a shared folder in Google Drive, and instead required that restricted access be managed consistently via the limited access folder setting. With this update, all items with legacy restricted access will be automatically migrated to use the limited access setting instead. There will be no change to who can see or access the files.

After the migration to the limited access setting, any user can audit the files they own with limited access by using the Drive search operators owner:me is:limitedaccess.

Items that were automatically migrated will show limited access was applied by Google Drive.

Items with limited access applied will show the updated sharing experience.
Getting started

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more.

Rollout pace

  • Personal Google accounts: Available now
  • Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 9, 2026
  • Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 16, 2026

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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