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Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

Emma Roth

created: June 18, 2025, 4 p.m. | updated: June 18, 2025, 7:29 p.m.

Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI chatbot right from its search engine. GIF: GoogleYou can try out Search Live in AI Mode by opting into the AI Mode experiment in Google Labs. Other AI companies have spent time building out voice modes for their AI models as well, with OpenAI launching an Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT last year and Anthropic rolling out a voice mode for its Claude app in May. Google says Search Live operates in the background, letting you continue your conversation with the chatbot when navigating to other apps. Google will save past Search Live conversations in your AI Mode history.

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