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This announcement was made at Google Cloud Next ‘22. Check out Next OnAir to tune into the livestream or watch session recordings following the event. Visit the Cloud Blog to learn more about the latest Google Workspace innovations for the ever-changing world of work. 


What’s changing 
For Google Voice Standard and Premier customers, admins can now connect a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunk with Voice. This allows phone numbers (PSTN services) from local carriers to be used for Google Voice through a secure set of certified Session Border Controllers (SBCs), such as Audiocodes, Cisco, Oracle, and Ribbon. SIP Link makes it easier for our customers to leverage the power of Voice. 




In the coming weeks, this feature will be available for new and existing Voice customers in supported countries. Support for more countries will be added over the coming months — we will share more information here on the Workspace Updates Blog at that time. 

Who’s impacted
Admins and end users 


Why it’s important 
SIP Link provides flexible options depending on the needs of your organization — in addition to using any SIP trunk with Voice, you can: 
  • Configure multiple deployment options, including managing on-premise management of SBC infrastructure or outsourcing to the carrier or a third-party provider 
  • Configure SBC for interoperability between Voice and any customer-owned call control infrastructure 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 
  • Available with Voice Standard and Voice Premier licenses. 


Resources 
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This announcement was made at Google Cloud Next ‘22. Check out Next OnAir to tune into the livestream or watch session recordings following the event. Visit the Cloud Blog to learn more about the latest Google Workspace innovations for the ever-changing world of work. 

What’s changing 
You can now transcribe a Google Meet video meeting into a Google Doc. The transcribed file is saved in the hosts “Meet Recordings” folder in Google Drive, similar to meeting recordings. This feature can only be accessed when using Google Meet on a desktop or laptop. At this time, this feature is only supported in English. 

Transcribe speech during Google Meet calls into a Google Doc
When turned on, a “Transcribing” badge will appear in the top left corner of the meeting.

Who’s impacted 
End users 


Why you’d use it 
Meeting transcripts can automatically capture the meeting discussion, making it easier to follow up afterward or serve as a record. 


For meetings with fewer than or equal to 200 invitees, the meeting host, co-hosts, or the transcript initiator will receive a link to the transcription document via email after the meeting ends. Additionally, the transcript will automatically be attached to the associated calendar invite for the meeting. 


For meetings with more than 200 attendees, the transcription will only be shared with the meeting organizers, host, and co-hosts, and individual users who initiated a transcription. For recurring meetings, new transcription documents will be continually added to the Calendar invite. 


Additional details 
Before joining a meeting, attendees will see a notification informing them when transcripts are active. 



Getting started 
  • Admins: 
    • The availability to use this feature will be ON by default and can be configured at the group, domain, or OU level. Note that there is no admin control for Google Workspace Business Standard customers. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Meet Transcriptions on or off. 
    • Note: For Google Workspace Education users with a teacher license, transcripts are ON by default. For those with a student license, transcripts are OFF by default. 
  • End users:
    • If host management is off, in-domain participants can use transcripts. If host management is on, only meeting hosts and co-hosts can turn transcripts on. 
    • To use transcripts in a meeting, eligible users can visit the activities panel and click “Transcripts.” When turned on, a “Transcribing” badge will appear in the top left corner of the meeting. To end the transcription, the user can click “Stop transcription,” and it will be saved to their Google Drive. Transcriptions will not begin without an eligible user initiating it.

Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Education Standard, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
  • Not available to users with personal Google Accounts 

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This announcement was made at Google Cloud Next ‘22. Check out Next OnAir to tune into the livestream or watch session recordings following the event. Visit the Cloud Blog to learn more about the latest Google Workspace innovations for the ever-changing world of work. 

What’s changing 
When using Google Meet Hardware devices, meeting hosts can now assign conference rooms to breakout rooms. Extending breakout rooms to all meeting participants—whether they’re joining remotely or in the office—ensures everyone can engage in collaborative working sessions. 



Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default — once a meeting participant joins from a meeting room, the meeting host can assign it to a breakout room. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using breakout rooms in Meet.
Rollout pace 

Availability 
Breakout Rooms 
  • Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Frontline, and Nonprofits customers 

Note that all meeting participants can participate in breakout rooms. 

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New updates 
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), 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), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers. 

Improved experience for the Calendar guest list in Google Meet 
To help participants run effective hybrid meetings, in addition to seeing the RSVP status of everyone on the meeting invite, you'll now see all information from the Google Calendar guest list, including: 
  • Working Location 
  • Out of office status 
  • If the meeting is outside of an invitees working hours 
  • If an invitee is joining from the meeting room 


Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, the Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Education Plus, Non profit customers, and legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. | Learn more. 


Gmail now supports Android 13 notification permissions 
Upon setting up your new Android 13 device and opening Gmail, you will be asked if you want to allow notifications from the app. We recommend allowing notifications and visiting the Gmail settings page to control what type of email notifications you want to receive. | Learn more. 


Easily drop content into Slides from other apps on Android 
A few months ago, we added several new features and functionality to products like Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Keep on Android devices. The ability to drag and drop content from other Android apps into Slides is the latest update. We hope this enhances flexibility by giving you more ways to work with, display and organize your content. | Learn more. 

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Previous announcements 
There are no previous announcements to share this week. Please see above for new announcements. 

Join us at Google Cloud Next ‘22 October 11-13, 2022 and check out Next OnAir to tune into the livestream or watch session recordings following the event.
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New updates 


There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements. 


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.



New Google Calendar shortcuts improve glanceability for screen reader users 
Users of screen readers can now type a keyboard shortcut that verbalizes the content of an event, such as the title, date and time, guest list, and much more. | Learn more. 



For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

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What’s changing 
In addition to the improved announcements for braille comments and highlights available in Google Docs on Web, and the recent launch of more control over accessibility preferences, we’re introducing Announce Shortcuts for Calendar event details. 

Users of screen readers can now type a keyboard shortcut (ALT + number,  1 - 7) that verbalizes the content of an event, such as the title, date and time, guest list, and much more. These shortcuts greatly improve glanceability because they enable Calendar details to be heard on demand instead of time consuming navigation through information. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: 
    • To view keyboard shortcuts in Calendar, type: 
      • Ctrl+/ on Windows and ChromeOS 
      • Cmd+/ on Mac 
    • Use the following keyboard combinations to access Announce Shortcuts: 
      • Alt+ for Windows 
      • Alt+Shift+ for ChromeOS 
      • Option+ for Mac 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about using a screen reader with Google Calendar. 
Rollout pace 


Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
  • Available to users with personal Google Accounts 

Resources 

Roadmap 
  • This feature was listed as an upcoming release.
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New updates 


There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements. 


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.


Introducing new spacing feature on Google Sites
In addition to adjusting the spacing between content in Sites using a new density theme setting, you're now able to use spacers to add empty space to your Sites in specific places. | Learn more. 



Updated Apps Script integrated development environment will replace the legacy experience by Q4 2022 
By the end of Q3 2022, we will begin turning down the legacy experience. Beginning Q4 2022, the new IDE will become the default experience with no option to revert. | Learn more.


For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

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What’s changing 
In December 2020, we announced an updated and improved experience for the Apps Script integrated development environment (IDE). Since then, it has been possible to access the legacy IDE. By the end of Q3 2022, we will begin turning down the legacy experience. Beginning Q4 2022, the new IDE will become the default experience with no option to revert. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and developers 


Why it’s important 
Apps Script is a rapid application development platform that makes it fast and easy to create custom business solutions that integrate with Google Workspace and that increase the power of apps including Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides. With this launch, we’ve revamped the cloud-based IDE that helps you create, edit, and manage projects. The new IDE simplifies the experience of developing for Google Workspace — for more information, see our original announcement, as well as additional features we announced in April 2022 to reach parity with the legacy experience. 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 
  • Available to Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 

Resources 
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What’s changing 
In addition to adjusting the spacing between content in Sites using a new density theme setting, you're now able to use spacers to add empty space to your Sites in specific places. 

This feature provides more flexibility, especially when designing a vertical layout, and generally makes template and webpage design much easier. 
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Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: In a Site, add spacers by clicking on the “Spacer” link from the Insert panel on the right. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding a spacer between elements. 
Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
  • Available to users with personal Google accounts 

Resources 
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New updates 

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), 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), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers. 


Send multiple images or videos at a time in Chat 
You can now select more than one image or video at a time when sending a message in Google Chat. | This is now available across iOS devices. For Android devices, roll out began September 15, 2022 and is expected to be completed by October 3, 2022. | Learn more. 

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Multi-pinning and picture-in-picture improvements available for Google Meet on Android and iOS
Early this year, we made multi-pinning available for Google Meet on Chrome. With this feature, you’re able to pin up to three participants’ video tiles at once to keep them fixed on your screen. We’re happy to announce that this is now available on Android and iOS devices. | Learn more. 


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. 


New Google endpoint management setting to show both personal and work entries in Google Calendar on Android devices 
In 2020, we announced the ability to see your personal and work calendars together on your Android device. We’re now adding support for Google endpoint management admins to enable this feature for their users. | Available to Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers, as well as G Suite Business and Cloud Identity Premium customers only. | Learn more. 

Easily share Google Meet artifacts with co-hosts 
Earlier, Google Meet features such as Meet recordings, Attendance Tracking, Polling, etc, would generate meeting artifacts which were directly shared with the meeting host only. Beginning today, these artifacts can be directly shared with the meeting co-hosts as well. | Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus, Education Fundamentals, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers only. | Learn more. 

Spanish, French, and Portuguese Smart Replies in Google Chat 
Smart replies in Google Chat are now available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. When you are typing a reply, Smart Reply will automatically detect the language and offer responses accordingly. | Learn more. 


For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
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