With Search Live with voice input, you can now have free-flowing, back-and-forth voice conversations with Search and explore links from across the web. You'll hear a helpful AI-generated audio response and you can easily follow up with another question. Search Live works in the background, so you can seamlessly continue the conversation while in another app. And if you want to revisit a Search Live response, pick up where you left off by heading to your AI Mode history.
Important: AI responses may include mistakes. Learn about generative AI and its limitations.
What you need
- Be 18 or older.
- A personal Google Account that you manage on your own. For now, Search Labs and its experiments are not available to Google Workspace accounts, including Google Workspace for Education accounts.
- The experiment is available in English to signed-in users in the US who opt-in to “AI Mode” experiment via Search Labs.
- To access Search Live in AI Mode, please enable Search History.
Get started with Search Live
Important:
- This experience is available only in the Google app
on Android and iOS.
- Make sure your Microphone
permissions for the Google app are turned on to use Search Live on AI Mode.
- Respect others’ privacy and ask permission before recording or including them in a Search Live conversation.
- Learn how data helps Google develop generative AI in Search.
- On your Android phone, open the Google app
- Below the Search bar, tap Live
.
- If you’re a first-time user, follow the on-screen instructions.
- Start your conversation with Search Live:
- To mute your mic, tap Mute
- To resume your Search Live chat, tap Unmute
.
- To interrupt Search Live when it's speaking, say “stop” or tap on
. You can also speak to interrupt Search Live anytime to add more details, ask a follow up question, or change the topic of the conversation.
- To end your conversation, tap the exit icon
.
- To mute your mic, tap Mute
- You can switch from typing in AI Mode
to continuing the conversation in Search Live anytime, tap the Live
.Use Search Live in the background
You can use your phone and other apps or lock your screen while you’re talking with Search Live.
- To put Search Live in the background: From the bottom of your screen, swipe up. Search Live mic and session controls are accessible as a notification from the Google app that shows at the top of your screen or in your notification history.
- To mute your mic, tap Mute mic in the Search Live notification. If your device is locked, tap the Search Live notification to expand it and access the mic controls.
- To end a Search Live conversation that continues while the app is running in the background, tap on End session in the Search Live notification. On the lock screen, expand the Search Live notification and tap End session.
- To go back to Search Live in fullscreen: Tap the body of the Search Live notification at the top of your screen or swipe down from the top of your screen to find and tap the Search Live notification in your notification center. If your phone is locked, tap the Search Live notification and then unlock your phone.
Important: To talk to Search Live in the background or while your device is locked, you must turn on notifications for Search Live on your device.
- On your Android phone, open your device’s Settings app.
- Tap Notifications
App notifications
- If it's off, turn on All Google Notifications.
- If it’s off, scroll to the Other section and turn on Search Live.
App notifications Manage your Search Live transcripts on AI Mode
View & delete Search Live transcripts
- You can view your Search Live transcripts in AI Mode history in the Google App:
- Tap the Transcript
in Live to end your conversation and view your most recent Search Live transcript as an AI Mode thread.
- To view past Search Live transcripts, tap AI Mode history
at the upper right corner of AI Mode.
- Tap the Transcript
- You can delete Search Live transcripts saved in your account anytime. From AI Mode history
- A specific thread: Tap
next to the AI Mode thread.
- All your AI Mode history: Tap
.
- A specific thread: Tap
- You can also go to your Search History page of My Activity and tap
to delete the AI Mode activity saved in your account.
- Tip: Access your Search History directly from a Live conversation by tapping the three-dot menu
at the top right of your screen, then tapping Search History
- Tip: Access your Search History directly from a Live conversation by tapping the three-dot menu
to delete the AI Mode activity saved in your account.
What happens when you delete your AI Mode history
- If you delete searches from AI Mode history, they may still appear in My Activity for some time. These items will be auto-deleted in less than 24 hours. You can manually delete these searches from My Activity.
- When your search begins with an AI Overview and you choose to "Dive deeper in AI Mode," you might see two entries in your Search history for that interaction. The first entry represents your original search query, and the second reflects the transition to AI Mode for follow-up questions. When you delete this search from AI Mode history, it’ll still appear in your Search history. To completely delete this specific search, you’ll also have to delete it from your Search history.
Share feedback
Your feedback helps us improve Search Live and AI Mode. Here's how to share feedback:
- During a Live conversation, tap the three-dot menu at the top right of your screen and then “Share feedback.”
- To help us understand your feedback, you can add more details in the text field, which is recommended.
- If you’re viewing your Live conversation transcript, you can also rate any AI Mode response using the thumbs up
and thumbs down
icons.
- Click
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- To send your feedback, click Submit. The feedback you submit includes your conversation transcript and its search results.