Gemini on Google TV is getting Nano Banana and voice-controlled settings

Gemini on Google TV is getting a major update that makes the AI assistant more helpful and more visually engaging. The big highlights are obviously the addition of Nano Banana and Veo support for creating AI videos and images directly on your TV. This can be anything from modifying your family photos for a laugh to creating “original” video clips on your TV. (Though how “original” anything spit out by an AI generator can be is up for debate.)

Those tools can also be paired with Gemini to search your Google Photos library to pull together stylized slideshows of particular events in your life. In general, Gemini’s responses will be more visual, including images or video context for your queries, as well as real-time sports updates. Gemini will also generate “deep dives” with narrated interactive elements on topics you choose.

If all of that seems like fun, but not particularly useful, fair. But Google will also be granting Gemini new voice-control capabilities. You’ll now be able to change various settings just by telling Gemini simple things like “the screen is too dim” or “I can’t hear the dialogue.” It will then adjust the picture or volume accordingly. Maybe one day you’ll even be able to do a cartoonish double take and shout, “Wait, what?” to have Google skip back and turn on closed captioning to make sure you heard correctly.

The upgraded Gemini for Google TV is coming to select TCL sets first, then additional Google TV devices in the coming months.