Duet AI for Google Workspace

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Introduction

Duet AI was announced at Google Cloud Next 23 as a powerful AI collaborator that can help you get more done in Google Workspace. It can help you write better emails, sort tables, create presentations, and more. Duet AI is still under development, but it has already learned to perform many kinds of tasks, including:

Helping you write better in Google Docs.
Generate images for better presentations in Google Slides
Organizing and analyzing data in Google Sheets

There is so much more that Duet AI provides and Google will be announcing more updates to it. In this blog post, we will be taking a look at these features that Duet AI provides in detail with some interesting examples.

Help me write in Google Docs

The help me write feature in Google Docs helps you to write better content, faster. It can help you generate new text, rewrite existing content or even improve your writing style.

Generate new text: You can use the Help Me Write feature to generate new text for your document, such as a blog post, social media campaign and more. All you have to do is type in a prompt and it will generate text for you according to your instructions.

Rewrite Existing text: You can use the help me write feature to rewrite existing text in the document. For example, you can use it to make your writing more concise, more formal, and creative.

Improve your writing style: This allows you to improve your writing style by suggesting edits and improvements you should make. It can even tell you to correct your grammar, improve your sentence structure, and make your writing more engaging.

Now that we have understood what the capabilities of the Help Me Write feature in Google Docs is, let's take a look at it in action.

On opening the new Google Doc, you can see the Help Me Write feature pops up.

On clicking the button, it allows you to enter a prompt that you want. For this example, we are going to tell it to write an advertisement for men’s soap bars.

On structuring the prompt, to generate the text just go ahead and click on Create. In just a few seconds you will be able to see that Duet AI has generated a complete new advertisement.

Here you can see we have successfully generated an advertisement for the soap bars. On reviewing the advertisement, let’s say you do not like the advertisement and maybe want to refine it and change the tone of it. You can do that by clicking on Refine.

On clicking Refine, you will be allowed to choose from a variety of options on how you want to refine the paragraph Duet AI just generated for you. Additionally, you can manually design another prompt for how you want to refine the paragraph by typing it in the custom section.

For this example, we are going to move forward and change the tone of the advertisement to Casual.

On refining the paragraph, just in a few seconds, we can see that it has given me a new informal version of it. Once you like the paragraph Duet AI has generated for you, go ahead and click on insert, the paragraph will be inserted inside your Google Doc.

Here you can see the paragraph has been pasted in the Google Doc and we have now successfully generated a new advertisement using Duet AI.

Generate Images in Slides

There have been so many times I have spent time trying to find the right photo to fit my slide and have been unsuccessful. With the new feature that Duet AI provides for Google Slides, I can generate images inside of slides and integrate them at the click of a button.

Now that we have understood what the capabilities of this feature are, let’s take a look at it in action.

When you open up your Google Slides, you will see something like this called Help me visualize. Once you click on this a new sidebar will open up on the right side of the screen.

In this sidebar, you have to enter the prompt for the image you want to generate. Once you enter the prompt you have an option to select a style for the image.

Once you select the style of the image, go ahead and click on Create.

On clicking Create, in about 15–20 seconds you will see multiple photos generated according to the prompt we entered.

Here you can see on successful execution we have been able to generate images inside of your Google Slides.

Organizing and analyzing data in Google Sheets

We looked at how we can generate new images in Google Slides followed by the Help Me Write feature in Google Docs. All these features helped us understand the power of Duet AI inside of Google Workspace Tools.

The next feature that we will be taking a look at is inside of Google Sheets, which allows us to turn ideas into actions and data into insights.

Once you open up your Google Sheet, you will see a sidebar on the right side of the screen saying help me organize.

Once you have your Google Sheet ready and the sidebar ready, it's time to enter a prompt for which you want to create a custom template.

For this example, I am going to ask it to generate a template for the following prompt. On clicking create, in a few seconds you will see that it has generated some data inside of your Google Sheet.

On successful execution, it has generated data according to the prompt we designed. If you are comfortable with this template it has generated go ahead and click on insert.

On clicking Insert, the data will be inserted into the Google Sheet and you can start using it like a normal Google Sheet.

Conclusion

Currently, all these features are not available for everybody and it is on a waitlist. If you want to grab the power of AI inside of Google Workspace Tools like Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides and more, apply for the waitlist by clicking here.

In this blog, we looked at how we can use AI inside of our Google Docs to help us write better. Later, we looked at how we can generate images inside of our Google Slides to make our presentations more engaging, and in the end, we looked at how we can generate templates inside of Google Sheets. I hope you have understood how to get the basics done with Duet AI for Google Workspace.

Feel free to reach out if you have any issues/feedback at aryanirani123@gmail.com.

Author Bio

Aryan Irani is a Google Developer Expert for Google Workspace. He is a writer and content creator who has been working in the Google Workspace domain for three years. He has extensive experience in the area, having published 100 technical articles on Google Apps Script, Google Workspace Tools, and Google APIs.

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