Good news for users in the Bel Paese (and not only) who love working in the cloud on Google Workspace. One of the most anticipated tools, Google Gemini, has just been enriched with a new feature: support for seven additional languages, including Italian. A novelty that makes Gemini accessible to over 1 billion people around the world, opening up new perspectives for productivity and online collaboration.
A Multilingual Assistant for Workspace
Gemini, for those who don't know it yet, is an artificial intelligence designed to simplify and improve the daily activities of users, including those of Google Workspace. Thanks to its integration with Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive, this assistant is able to assist in multiple tasks: from writing texts to summarizing documents, from managing email to extracting key information from different sources.
Until recently, however, Gemini “spoke” only English. A significant limitation for a tool designed for a global audience, which risked excluding a large portion of non-English speaking users. Hence Google's decision to expand Gemini's language support, adding seven new languages: Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
How to use Gemini in the Workspace App Side Panel
Managing your inbox can be a challenge, especially when time is limited. With Gemini in Gmail, finding what you’re looking for and responding quickly is easy. This tool is especially useful for those who work in customer service. For example, agents can ask Gemini to view unread emails from customers who need attention and help them formulate accurate, empathetic responses in their preferred language.
Marketing teams often rely on Gemini in Google Docs to help them craft short, snappy copy for their campaigns. Whether you're struggling with writer's block or need creative social media post ideas to promote a new product launch, you can now use Gemini in Google Workspace in Documents to generate social media texts in your preferred language.
Finding the right details among multiple files, presentations, and documents can be a challenge for sales teams. Often, salespeople spend a lot of time searching for specific information that could be used to prepare crucial presentations. With Gemini in Drive, you can request a summary of the most relevant information about a product or customer. In just a few seconds, Gemini gathers this information and displays it in the sidebar, helping you better prepare for the customer meeting.
Breaking down language barriers
The impact of this novelty is potentially enormous. First of all, makes Gemini a truly inclusive tool, capable of adapting to the linguistic needs of users from different countries and cultural backgrounds. An aspect not to be overlooked in an increasingly interconnected world, where collaboration between international teams is the order of the day. Secondly, Gemini’s expanded language support opens up new possibilities for businesses and organizations that already use Google Workspace. For example, if a company has offices in multiple countries and employees speak different languages, Gemini will enable everyone to leverage AI in their native language, without having to adapt to English or rely on external translations.
But the benefits don't end there. Gemini's ability to understand and generate content in multiple languages can prove invaluable even for those who work in specific fields, such as customer service or international marketing. Having an assistant who can handle multilingual communication can greatly simplify these tasks, reducing time and improving the quality of the output.
Google Gemini, not just translations
It is important to underline that Gemini's multilingual support is not limited to a simple translation of contents. Google's artificial intelligence is in fact able to understand the context and linguistic nuances of each language, adapting its output to cultural and stylistic specificities. This means, for example, that Gemini can generate persuasive texts or effective emails taking into account the linguistic and communicative differences between one country and another. An aspect not to be overlooked for those who deal with marketing or international communication, and which can make the difference between an effective message and one that "sounds" out of place or out of place.
Likewise, Gemini’s ability to operate in multiple languages can be invaluable for managing multilingual documents and projects. Consider the ability to automatically summarize a report in English, extracting key information and presenting it in Italian or other languages. This would take time and resources to do manually, but Gemini can complete it in seconds.
An increasingly multilingual future
The expansion of Gemini language support to Workspace is another step toward a future where AI will be increasingly integrated into our workflows, breaking down the language and cultural barriers that still limit global collaboration today. Of course, we are only at the beginning of this journey. The languages currently supported by Gemini are still a minority compared to the variety of languages spoken in the world. But Google has already announced that it aims to further expand language support in the coming months, making its assistant increasingly accessible and inclusive.
At the same time, it is reasonable to expect that Google's example will be followed by other players in the tech sector, in a race towards increasingly multilingual and adaptive artificial intelligence. A competition that, ultimately, can only benefit end users, offering them increasingly sophisticated tools to communicate, collaborate and work beyond language barriers. Because, you know, Gemini is not the only answer to this challenge.
Ultimately, the true strength of artificial intelligence lies not only in the ability to automate tasks or generate content, but also and above all in its flexibility, in the ability to evolve and adapt to the most diverse contexts. And Gemini, with its new multilingual support, does it in Italian.
