Gmail’s Help Me Write Just Got A Lot More Useful By Adding Support For These Two Languages
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Summary
- Google’s AI writing companion in Gmail, Help Me Write, aims to draft entire emails and provide suggestions to improve writing.
- Google has now added Japanese and Korean language support to the feature, expanding its reach to eight languages.
- Help Me Write is exclusive to Google One AI Premium subscribers and is accessible across various Google Workspace tiers, including Gemini Education and Enterprise add-ons.
AI, AI, AI. It’s quite literally everywhere — including something you check at least a dozen times per day: your email inbox. Google added Smart Reply to Gmail in 2017 to help you save time by suggesting quick responses to messages. The company then took it a step further with Smart Compose, which gave you writing suggestions as you typed. But it didn’t end there. In fact, it only got better.
At Google I/O 2023, held in May, the company announced the Help Me Write feature in Gmail, which you can think of as an AI writing companion built right into your inbox. Similar to how you’d use a chatbot like ChatGPT or Copilot, Help Me Write uses Google Gemini to draft entire emails or provide suggestions on how to polish, formalize, elaborate, or shorten what you’ve already written.
Given how quickly AI is developing, Google’s work obviously didn’t stop with rolling out Help Me Write. Since its launch, the developers have consistently shipped upgrades, aiming to make the feature more accessible and useful. Late last month, Google added support for Italian, French, and German to the tool. And now, Google’s back with another update. In a blog post published today, the company announced that Help Me Write in Gmail now supports two more languages: Japanese and Korean (via Android Authority).
Help Me Write Now Supports Eight Languages
At the time of writing, Gmail’s Help Me Write feature supports eight different languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Korean
So, if you’ve always been a fan of binge-watching K-dramas, obsessively watch anime and read manga, or simply want to stay in touch with that one Japanese friend you met during a conference, Gmail’s Help Me Write tool now has your back.
While Help Me Write was only available to select testers in the Workspace Labs program when it was first announced, the feature is now available exclusively to subscribers of the Google One AI Premium plan. It’s also accessible across multiple Google Workspace tiers, including the Gemini Education and Education Premium add-ons, as well as the Gemini Enterprise and Business add-ons.
