Tag Archives: Google Meet

Presented content will be captured in higher definition in Google Meet recordings

What’s changing 

For recorded meetings in Google Meet, we’re increasing the maximum resolution for shared content from 720p to 1080p. This will help ensure crisper text and visuals for presented content, creating a better viewing experience. Note that the rest of the meeting capture will remain at a maximum of 720p. 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to Google Workspace Business Plus, Business Standard, Education Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Starter, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers 

Resources 

Turn Q&As on or off for Google Meet livestream viewers

What’s changing 

Earlier this year, we announced that meeting hosts can now enable Q&A and poll features, which previously were only offered in traditional Meet meetings. Beginning today, meeting hosts can turn Q&A on and off for livestreams.


We’ve also increased the limit of questions per meeting or livestream from 200 to 500. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using polls and Q&As in Google Meet. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning upgrade customers 

Resources 


Pair your video tile in Google Meet to improve accessibility for users with language interpreters

What’s changing 

Currently, there are a variety of features to help make meetings more inclusive and equitable, including screen reader support and live captions. 


Today, we’re introducing tile pairing for Google Meet, which will allow you to pair your video tile with another meeting participant's tile. Once you pair your tile, other meeting participants will see both tiles shown next to each other. Both pairing partners will have their borders outlined in blue when speaking. Tile pairing will be indicated in the meeting captions as well. 


Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 


Why it matters

Tile pairing can help make meetings more accessible, specifically in situations where you want to ensure a sign-language or other language interpreter is visible during the meeting. You can also use this feature to pair speaker duos or presenters with co-presenters for a more dynamic presenting experience. 


Additional details 

At this time, tile pairings will not be captured in meeting recordings. Also, tile pairing is not available in break out rooms at this time.


Getting started

  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default and can be turned off at the OU level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing Meet settings and accessibility in Google Meet.

  • End users: 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about pairing tiles in Google Meet and accessibility in Google Meet.
    • If enabled by your admin, tile pairing will be available for all users. Find the user you would like to pair with in the participant list, click on the 3-dot menu and send a pairing request.
    • You’ll receive a notification with a choice to “accept” or “decline” the pairing.

Rollout pace



Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts

Resources


Find and install third-party add-ons directly within Google Meet

What’s changing 

You can now find, install, and use third-party applications all without having to leave Google Meet. At the top of the activities panel, you’ll see a “Featured add-ons” category — from here, it takes two clicks to install and begin using apps such as Confluence, Figma, Lucidspark, Miro, Polly and Read.ai in your meetings. 





You can use the “Get add-ons” button to open the Google Workspace Marketplace to browse additional add-ons for Meet. Note that in some cases, admins may have pre-installed add-ons for you or have turned off access to certain add-ons. 


Whether you’re leveraging the white boarding capabilities of Miro or Lucidspark, or using Figma to explore design possibilities in real time — you can do it all within Google Meet, without switching tabs or opening additional applications. Further, since these add-ons open directly in Meet, you can share your screen with all participants, even those who don’t have the add-on or are on an unsupported platform.


Additional details

The Miro-Meet integration is now available via the Miro add-on
In 2022, we announced the Miro integration within Google Meet — at that time, Miro would open in a separate tab with Google Meet in the sidebar. Beginning today, Miro will open directly in Meet, allowing you to leverage Miro’s rich capabilities designed for innovation without leaving Meet. With this update, users can access the Miro integration with Meet by installing the Miro add-on in the Google Workspace Marketplace. For more information about how the Miro experience is changing, see this Community forum post.



Getting started


Rollout pace


Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Dual Display on Poly Studio X Series Makes Video Meetings More Productive

What’s changing 

We are excited to announce dual display support for Google Meet on the Poly Studio X Series to help make video meetings more productive. With dual displays, you can see more meeting participants, presentations, and documents at once, which can help you stay focused and engaged in meetings. With a single display, shared content takes over a majority of the screen and minimizes the view of meeting participants. Minimizing the view of participants can affect meeting engagement by limiting conversation between those who are in the room and those who are not. 


During a video meeting with dual displays, the primary and secondary screens will show the view of all the participants in the meeting, including the view of the local room.
  • When a participant presents, the presentation will enlarge onto one screen display and the participant views will reflect on the other screen display. 
  • Where supported, the controller or remote will also provide options like pinning participants, changing the layout of the participant tiles, and showing the meeting's chat history.



Visit the Help Center to learn more about Dual Displays.

Getting Started

  • Admins: 
  • End Users: To use dual displays with the Poly Studio X Series of video bars, simply plug a second display into the device’s display port. The Poly Studio X Series will automatically recognize the second monitor and add it as a secondary display.

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Poly Studio X50, X52, and X70 devices.
    • Note: Poly Studio X30 only supports a single monitor. Poly Studio X50, X52, and X70 devices support dual display.

Rollout

  • This new feature is available now for compatible Poly Studio X Series devices running Poly OS 4.0.1 or higher.


Resources




Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – September 8, 2023

5 New updates 

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.


Expanding autocorrect to Google Chat on web 
Google Chat on web will now automatically correct misspelled words, making it easier to send messages without typos. Similar to functionality in Gmail and Google Docs, the corrected words are shown with a gray underline so you know when the auto-correction has occurred. | This feature is rolling out now to all English users.
Expanding autocorrect to Google Chat on web

Expanding streamlined file organization across Google Workspace 
Earlier this year, we introduced streamlined file organization with the new Google Drive location picker. As a follow up, we're expanding this updated visual experience to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Sites and Gmail. Users will now have access to helpful suggestions when moving files, adding shortcuts to files, or creating copies of files. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains at an extended pace (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). | Learn more about how to use Google Drive. 

Updated zoom in/out capabilities across Google Docs, Slides and Drawings
We’re introducing new zoom keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs and Slides on web to help you zoom in, zoom out, or scale to 100%. Additionally, you can now smoothly zoom in or out in Slides using the trackpad or mouse wheel with a modifier key (cmd/ctrl), making it easier to control your view of Slides. | Learn more about keyboard shortcuts for Docs and Slides

Expanded language support for captions in Google Meet 
Captions in Google Meet allow you to view captions as everyone speaks during a meeting. Over the course of the next several weeks, you’ll be able to use captions in more languages: 

Arabic (Arab Emirates) (Beta)

Arabic (Egypt) (Beta)

Arabic (Levant) (Beta)

Arabic (Maghrebi) (Beta)

Bengali (Bangladesh) (Beta)

Bulgarian (Bulgaria) (Beta)

Chinese (Simplified) (Beta)

Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional) (Beta)

English (UK) (Beta)

Gujarati (India) (Beta)

Hindi (Beta)

isiXhosa (South Africa) (Beta)

Kannada (India) (Beta)

Khmer (Cambodia) (Beta)

Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) (Beta)

Malayalam (India) (Beta)

Marathi (India) (Beta)

Northern Sotho (South Africa) (Beta)

Sesotho (South Africa) (Beta)

Swati (South Africa) (Beta)

Swedish (Sweden) (Beta)

Tshivenda (South Africa) (Beta)

Tswana (South Africa) (Beta)

Xitsonga (South Africa) (Beta)

Available now to all Google Workspace customers. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about using captions in Google Meet.

Dynamic groups now supports negation queries 
You can now create or edit dynamic groups to use negation in membership queries. For example, you can opt to create a dynamic group that excludes all users from a particular sub organization or specific job title. There are a few limitations, however — any query using the “exists” macro and using the AND (&) operator or queries where the NOT operator is used inside of the “exists” macro will not be supported. | Rolling out to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains at gradual pace (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting September 11, 2023. | Available to Google Workspace Frontline Standard, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus and Cloud Identity Premium customers only. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating membership queries for dynamic groups and our Developer documentation for more information about formulating and testing a membership query
Dynamic groups now supports negation queries

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.


Expanding branding and customization capabilities to Google Sites 
You can now easily and quickly create with high-quality, pre-designed themes for Google Sites. | Available to Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus only. | Learn more about changing how your Google Site looks

Introducing a new ultra-low latency viewer experience for in-domain live streaming in Google Meet 
We are introducing a new ultra-low latency viewing experience for video meetings that are streamed within an organization. The new experience will be available to the first ten thousand viewers — all additional viewers will have the existing experience. | Learn more about in-domain live streaming in Google Meet

More Google Meet features for Google Workspace Individual users 
If you’re a Google Workspace Individual user, you can now take advantage of several new Meet features and enhancements. We hope these updates make it easier for you to connect and collaborate with your customers and stakeholders, continuing to drive your business forward. | Learn more about features for Google Workspace Individual users

Lock files more easily in Google Drive 
We’re adding the option to lock Drive files by right-clicking the file, selecting “File information”, and clicking “Lock”. Locking a file makes sure reviewers can’t change a file. Edits, comments and suggestions can't be added to locked documents. | Learn more about locking files in Drive.

Increased row limits in Connected Sheets for BigQuery 
We’re increasing the maximum number of rows of results returned from BigQuery for pivot tables and for data extracts. Pivot tables have been expanded to 50,000 rows (previously 30,000) and data extracts have been expanded to 50,000 rows (previously 25,000). | Learn more about Connected Sheets for BigQuery.


More Google Meet features for Google Workspace Individual users

What’s changing

If you’re a Google Workspace Individual user, you can now take advantage of several new Meet features and enhancements. We hope these updates make it easier for you to connect and collaborate with your customers and stakeholders, continuing to drive your business forward.


Feature

Description

Default ON / OFF

Participant Limit

We’re increasing the number of meeting participants from 100 to 150.

This feature will be ON by default.

Assign co-hosts

You can assign one or more co-hosts, who can help manage the flow of your meetings.

This feature will be ON by default.

Q&As

You can use the Q&A feature to engage further with your audience, giving them the opportunity to get their questions answered.

This feature will be ON by default.

Meeting Transcripts

You can use transcripts to capture the meeting discussion and meeting attendees, making it easier to follow-up after the meeting, identify action items, or simply serve as a meeting record.

This feature will be ON by default.

Guest List

Directly from Google Meet, you can see everyone invited to the meeting but have yet to join the call. You can also see their RSVP status, including “optional” attendees and RSVP notes.

This feature will be ON by default.



Getting started 

Rollout pace

  • Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on September 5, 2023

Availability

  • This update is specific to Google Workspace Individual subscribers 

Resources



Introducing a new ultra-low latency viewer experience for in-domain live streaming in Google Meet

What’s changing 

We are introducing a new ultra-low latency viewing experience for video meetings that are streamed within an organisation. The new experience will be available to the first ten thousand viewers — all additional viewers will have the existing experience. This update is only available on the web, mobile users will be redirected to a web link, where they’ll have the existing livestream experience. 


With this release, you’ll notice several functional and quality improvements, such as: A virtually lag-free streaming experience. 
  • Significantly increased speaker video resolution (up to 720p per speaker). 
  • Shared content and presentations shown up to 2880x1800. 
  • Up to two speaker video feeds can be shown side by side together with presented material. 
  • A new layout engine supports any window aspect with dynamic resolution management. 
  • Improved automatic camera cuts that focus on the most relevant speakers & content. 
  • Audience interaction through emoji reactions, polls and Q&A. Support for captions and translated captions is coming in a later update.


Additional details

These updates will be available for Google Meet on web and Android devices. We plan to introduce support for Meet mobile apps by the end of 2023, which will introduce an immersive, full-screen live streaming experience for both iOS and Android devices.  We’ll share an update on the blog when that becomes available.


Getting started

  • Admins: Visit our Help Center for more information turning live streaming on or off for Meet.
  • End users: When enabled by your admin, use the Help Center to learn more about live streaming a video meeting
    • Viewers: You can join streams as before. Reactions, polls and live Q&A work like in a regular Meet video meeting.
    • Live stream hosts: Live streams are scheduled and managed just like before. Reactions, polls and live Q&A are integrated with the Meet call and managed like usual. Automatic camera cuts are triggered by speaker activity without any host action required.

Rollout pace

Note: For some customers, these changes may roll out at a slower rate — this means some customers may not receive this update until Q4 2023, with the latest being December 2023.


Availability

  • Live streaming is available for Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus customers.

  • Live streamed meetings can be viewed by Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning. Upgrade, Education Plus, Essentials Starter, and Essentials users.
  • Not available to users with personal Google accounts.

Resources


Expanded language availability for translated captions, available with Duet AI

This announcement was made at Google Cloud Next ‘23. Visit the Workspace Blog to learn more about the next wave of AI innovation in Workspace. This feature is exclusive to the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.



What’s changing

As part of the Duet AI for Workspace Enterprise add-on, we’re expanding the number of languages available for the translated captions feature.


If you have Duet AI for Google Workspace, you can now translate English and non-English speech to and from the following languages:
  • Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional)
  • Hindi (India)
  • Thai
  • Italian
  • Russian

This adds to the existing list of languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian.


Additionally, you can translate non-English speech to and from the following languages:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese


Getting started

  • Admins: There are no admin controls for these features. See here for more information on the Duet AI for Workspace Enterprise add-on.

  • End users: These features are available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about translated captions in Google Meet.

  • Meeting participants: You can use live translated captions if you’re using an eligible Google Workspace edition or the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace edition. 


Rollout pace


Availability

  • This feature is available as part of the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.
  • Note: Translated captions in Google Meet will be available exclusively to Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on users at a future date. We will provide a minimum of 6 months notice to existing Google Workspace customers before this change takes place.


Resources


Create custom, unique meeting backgrounds using generative AI

This announcement was made at Google Cloud Next ‘23. Visit the Workspace Blog to learn more about the next wave of AI innovation in Workspace. This feature is exclusive to the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.

 

What’s changing

There are a variety of ways to change your background in Google Meet today, including immersive backgrounds, seasonal backgrounds, and more. Beginning today, you can now use the power of Duet AI to generate completely unique and bespoke meeting backgrounds.

Create your custom background from the Meet greenroom




Who’s impacted

Admins and end users



Why you’d use it

In addition to protecting your privacy during video calls, you can generate a background that enhances the meeting itself. For example, you can create a background specific to your clients and the industry they work with, helping to deepen the connection through visual reinforcement. You can create backgrounds that set the tone for kicking off an important project, or one befitting of celebrating a company or colleague milestone.

Getting started