Google Vault now supports filtered exports for Gemini in Workspace

Google Vault now supports eDiscovery filtered exports for Gemini in Workspace. This update adds a new data source to our AI compliance capabilities, allowing administrators to filter and export users' Gemini in Workspace conversations across apps like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet in line with the security controls and privacy provisions of Vault:

• Filter conversations by custodian and date range: Define export scopes by specific user accounts or organizational units (OUs) up to 5,000 users in size, and filter by a specific date range (with time zone selection).
• Export conversations in a JSON format: Export matching conversation histories via the Vault UI or API. While exported in JSON, the metadata tags align with the GenAI conversation format used in the Gemini app.
• Include conversation context: Exports include user prompts, AI responses, generated attachments (such as images), and links to referenced Workspace files (such as Drive documents or Gmail threads) and citations.

Google Vault enables customers to govern and export their Google Workspace data from a central tool to meet legal and regulatory obligations. Additional information governance features for Gemini in Workspace, such as retention rules and litigation holds, will follow in future releases.

Additional details

• Application scope: This update captures Gemini in Workspace conversations created when conversation history is turned on across integrated Workspace apps (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet). 
• Conversation history settings: Admins can use OU-level conversation history and deletion settings in the Admin console to govern data retention (such as preventing manual conversation deletion by users or configuring automatic deletion after a period of inactivity).
• UI experience: Admins can start an export directly from the Search tab in Vault by selecting "Gemini in Workspace" from the newly alphabetized service dropdown, entering their filter criteria, and clicking "Export."
• API support: Support for Vault API users will be available within 14 days of the UI rollout.

Getting started

• Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Vault to export Gemini in Workspace data, as well as supported services and data types.
• End users: There is no end-user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Business: Business Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Standard and Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
• Other Add-ons: Vault

Resources

• Google Vault Help: Vault export contents
• Google Vault Help: Supported services & data types
• Google Workspace Updates: Gemini conversation history in Google Workspace
• Google Workspace Updates: Google Vault now supports the Gemini app
• Google Workspace Updates: Google Vault now supports retention rules and litigation holds for Gemini app

Real-time speech translation in Google Meet expands to 63 languages with automatic language detection

Gemini-powered speech translation in Google Meet will now support 63 languages across web and mobile devices (Android and iOS), with listening support on Google Meet hardware devices.

Previously, speech translation supported a limited set of language pairs and required configuring a single language pair for the entire meeting. With this update, powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, participants can translate speech between any combination of the 63 supported languages in the same meeting with minimal configuration, helping global and distributed teams collaborate more naturally across language barriers.

We’re changing and simplifying how participants use speech translation during a multilingual call:

• Automatic spoken language detection: Meet automatically detects the language being spoken and translates it into each listener's preferred language in near real-time, even when multiple languages are spoken in the same meeting or when a speaker switches languages.
• Individual participant controls: Instead of a meeting-wide configuration, participants can independently enable speech translation for themselves using the dedicated translation control in the meeting toolbar, and optionally configure additional languages they already understand so those languages are not translated. 
• Synchronized automatically translated captions: When speech translation is active, captions provide a consistent reading and listening experience, matching the translated audio.

Please note a few important considerations regarding access and use of this feature:

• Meeting access and direct calls: Speech translation is available to all meeting participants, including guests from other domains, when the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan. In direct 1:1 calls, speech translation is available to both participants if either person has an eligible plan.
• Meeting duration limits: Speech translation is available for up to 90 minutes per meeting for eligible base Workspace and Google AI Pro plans, and up to 8 hours per meeting for AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access, and Google AI Ultra plans.
• Google Meet hardware devices: Participants in conference rooms using Google Meet hardware can listen to translated speech from remote participants, but speech originating from the conference room hardware will not be translated for others.
• Unsupported scenarios: Speech translation is not available in live streams, meeting recordings, client-side encrypted (CSE) meetings, dial-in or third-party interoperability calls, or when using adaptive audio. Availability is also subject to regional and age restrictions.
• Privacy and user control: Users choose whether their speech is translated for others and can update their preference at any time in Meet settings. Google does not store voice data or train models on your voice.

Getting started

• Admins: Speech translation is ON by default for eligible Google Workspace editions (when the Gemini for Meet admin setting is enabled) and can be disabled or enabled at the organizational unit (OU) or group level in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Google Meet > Gemini settings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Speech translation on or off for Meet.
• End users: Speech translation is OFF by default at the start of a meeting and can be enabled by individual participants during a call. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Speech Translation in Google Meet.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 22, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 2, 2026

Note: Feature visibility and synchronized captions may vary during the initial rollout. Mobile users will need to update their Google Meet application to ensure access to these new capabilities.

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Speech translation on or off for Meet
• Google Help: Learn about Speech Translation in Google Meet
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Control Speech Translation in Google Meet for your users
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices 
• News from Google: Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Create box and whisker charts in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now natively supports box and whisker charts, a statistical chart type that shows how a dataset is distributed. Select a range of raw numeric values and Sheets calculates the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, maximum, mean, and outliers for you, with no helper formulas needed. You can choose inclusive or exclusive quartile calculation and show or hide inner points, outliers, mean markers, and mean lines.

Box and whisker support also comes with enhanced Microsoft Excel import compatibility. Previously, importing Excel files containing box and whisker charts into Sheets would drop the chart entirely. Now, these charts are preserved on import with their data references, calculations, and formatting intact, and charts created in Sheets export back to Excel as editable box and whisker charts.

User creating a box and whisker chart in Google Sheets

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding and editing a chart in Google Sheets.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 22, 2026 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 6, 2026

Availability

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

Resources

• Google Docs Editors Help: Add & edit a chart or graph