Google Workspace Changes

AI voiceovers in Google Vids now support seven additional languages.

Google Vids' AI Voiceovers feature allows users to generate realistic narration for their videos by selecting from various presets. Similar to avatars, this feature now supports seven new languages in addition to English: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. This enables users to type a script and receive a high-quality voiceover in these newly supported languages, enhancing global communication capabilities.

AI avatars in Google Vids now support seven additional languages.

Google Vids' AI avatars, which allow for the generation of high-quality speakers, have expanded their language support beyond English. Users can now create avatar videos in seven new languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. This enhancement aims to assist users in scenarios such as pitching global clients and educating a global workforce by enabling communication in native languages, ultimately saving cost and time.

Expanding access to Read-along teleprompter, Transcript trim, and Styled captions for all Google Vids users.

Google is making three professional-quality video creation features—Read-along teleprompter, Transcript trim, and Styled captions—available to all Google Vids users regardless of their Workspace edition. This update ensures that users on promotional periods, as well as those on Frontline and Education Fundamentals editions, have access to these essential editing tools.

Google Vids makes three features (Read-along teleprompter, Transcript trim, Styled captions) available to all users.

To help more users create professional-quality content, Google Vids is expanding access to three key features for all users, regardless of their Workspace edition. These features include the Read-along teleprompter, which allows users to read from an auto-scrolling script; Transcript trim, for editing videos by deleting words or silences from the transcript; and Styled captions, which offers various visual styles for captions to enhance accessibility and engagement. This change extends these features to users on promotional Workspace editions, Frontline, Education Fundamentals, Workspace Individual subscribers, and personal Google accounts.

Google Vids now supports styled, animated captions that synchronize with audio and media.

Google Vids has introduced styled, animated captions that synchronize with audio and media elements to improve video comprehension and accessibility. These captions serve as a visual guide for viewers, and users have the ability to edit and correct any spelling or grammar errors within the captions. The feature supports a wide array of global languages.

Google Vids now supports styled, animated captions.

Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app, now allows users to create styled and animated captions that synchronize with audio and media. These captions enhance video comprehension and viewer tracking, and users can edit them for spelling and grammar errors. This feature aims to help users become better storytellers.

Google Vids now supports portrait-sized clips via Ingredients to Video in Veo 3.1.

Google Vids has updated its 'Ingredients to Video' capability using Veo 3.1 to support the generation of portrait-sized video clips. These improvements include faster pacing, more engaging shots, realistic audio, and better consistency for objects, characters, and backgrounds, making it easier for users to create immersive content for social media channels using reference images and prompts.

Improvements to Veo 3.1 in Google Vids now support generating portrait-sized video clips with faster pace and engaging shots.

Google Vids, with improvements to Veo 3.1, now allows users to generate portrait-sized video clips. This enhancement provides faster-paced, more engaging shots, realistic audio, and maintains consistency of objects, characters, and backgrounds. This feature is particularly useful for customers creating immersive video content for marketing, announcements, and explainer videos, enabling easy resizing for social media sharing.

Google Vids avatars now powered by Veo 3.1 for more realistic and faster creation.

Google Vids avatars are now powered by Veo 3.1, Google’s state-of-the-art video generation model. This upgrade provides heightened expression, smoother lip-syncing, and steadier framing, resulting in a professional look. Avatars are also faster to create at no additional cost, improving viewer watch time and engagement. Use cases include training videos, internal announcements, and custom support walkthroughs.

Nano Banana Pro in Google Vids enhances image generation and editing with greater precision and multi-turn prompting.

Google Vids now utilizes Nano Banana Pro to improve image generation and editing capabilities. The introduction of multi-turn prompting allows for iterative refinement of visuals, assisting users in creating custom, production-ready assets for their videos.

New ingredients-to-video capability powered by Veo 3.1 in Google Vids to create eight-second video clips from images.

Google Vids introduces a new 'ingredients-to-video' feature, powered by Veo 3.1, enabling users to generate eight-second video clips. By selecting up to three images and providing an instructive prompt, Veo in Vids creates clips with consistent subjects, characters, and objects. This capability helps users craft cohesive stories for various purposes like brand promotions, training videos, or employee onboarding, by transforming preferred images into dynamic video content.

Google Vids now supports creating and editing vertical and square videos.

Google Vids has introduced new capabilities allowing users to create and edit videos in vertical (9:16) and square (1:1) aspect ratios. These new options are in addition to the previously supported widescreen/horizontal format (16:9). The availability of these additional sizes provides users with greater flexibility to produce content tailored for various platforms such as YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok. Vertical and square templates will also be supported soon.

Google Vids upgraded with Nano Banana image editing model and custom prompt image editing.

Google Vids has been upgraded to the latest image editing model, Nano Banana, offering improved quality for image editing within videos. Users now have the option to edit images using custom prompts, allowing them to create and insert custom-generated images into their videos.

Expanded access to several AI features in Google Vids for Education Plus and Teaching & Learning add-on users.

Google Vids has expanded access to several AI features for users with an Education Plus or Teaching & Learning add-on license, available for a limited time through May 31st, 2026. These features include read-along mode in the teleprompter, AI voice overs, text-to-image generation, AI-powered image editing for background replacement/expansion, a "Help me create" tool for video story planning, and transcript trim. This enables educators and students to generate custom images and video clips, add professional touches, and use preset voiceovers for narration.

'Help me create' in Google Vids now includes support for Google Slides presentations as reference materials for video drafts.

The 'Help me create' feature in Google Vids has been updated to include support for Google Slides presentations as reference materials. Users can now incorporate their Google Slides when constructing prompts, which will lead to improved Slides analysis and content integration into the generated video drafts. This includes pulling text and visual content like relevant Slides, images, and text, in addition to suggested scripts, AI voiceovers, and music.