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Google is continually enhancing AI Studio, with a notable recent addition being the dictation feature in Apps Builder. This feature, designed for developers and power users seeking a faster, hands-free workflow, allows users to dictate their prompts instead of typing. This shift brings the user experience closer to that of coding tools known for their efficiency, enabling users to iterate more quickly and lower the barrier for multi-step prompt input when building and testing AI-powered apps.
In case you missed it, the AI Studio Build section now sports a dictation button. Users can now dictate their prompts for Gemini to construct web applications, streamlining the process and reducing manual effort.
Looking ahead, Google is internally testing an annotation feature for Apps Builder. This upcoming tool will allow users to add visible comments, error pointers, and highlights directly onto the visual workflow canvas. Screenshots adorned with these visual notes can then be shared in chat, enabling prompts to reference specific UI areas. This targeted approach promises to enhance troubleshooting and collaborative development with Gemini’s AI, particularly for teams, product designers, and testers managing complex agent flows where context precision is crucial.
While there’s no firm public timeline for the annotation feature’s release, it’s rumored to coincide with Google’s upcoming core UI refresh, expected in the next few weeks. These updates align with Google’s broader strategy to support more multimodal and collaborative development environments. By providing Gemini models with richer context and users with greater control over the prompt-design loop, future Gemini releases are expected to leverage these annotation and dictation inputs more fully. This is likely to improve reliability in tasks that require focused context or granular UI understanding.
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