Gemini Live turns voice into scheduled work

Google says 63% of Gemini users talk to it out loud as Gemini Live adds a handoff to Spark for multi-step jobs across Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the web, the product announcement explains. Spark can run scheduled work for days or weeks, while Live can search, summarize, archive, or delete Gmail messages by voice. Builders should file this as an interface shift rather than a new chatbot: voice agents now need explicit task state, permissions, and cancellation paths when a conversation can launch background work; the archive’s audio-first device thesis is the adjacent hardware bet.