Google Photos’ Memory Feature Set to Acquire Narration Capabilities with Gemini AI

Google Photos serves as the primary gallery application on numerous devices, particularly on Pixel smartphones. This application not only provides an excellent overview of the media stored on your device but also acts as a robust platform for backing up photos and videos to the cloud. Many users also leverage the Google Photos app for photo editing purposes.

In recent updates, Google Photos has introduced the ability to flip images and videos horizontally. A recent APK Teardown revealed that Google is contemplating the incorporation of Gemini AI capabilities into the Photos app’s “Memory”feature.

The Google Photos “Memory”feature allows users to reminisce about their activities from previous years, enabling them to revisit cherished moments. With the latest version, Google Photos 7.1, several lines of code have been discovered, indicating that Google may employ Gemini AI to create narrations for these memory highlights.

Below are the pertinent code snippets (via Android Authority):

Get recap memories narrated by Gemini
Gemini-powered memories
Hang tight! Your %1$s recap will be ready in December
Get recap memories narrated by Gemini
Gemini-powered memories

From these code segments, a primary feature of the AI-driven memory generator appears to be the Gemini narrations. Currently, the Google Photos “Memory”feature only presents slideshows of photos and videos paired with background music, lacking any form of narration.

The absence of narration may hinder the understanding of context for others who are not part of the memory. The addition of Gemini AI narration could fill this void, providing valuable context to the memories. Gemini AI may extract and articulate context from the images and videos when generating these memory narratives.

Moreover, Google might focus on enhancing the “Year in Review”recap memories instead of all memories. In this context, Gemini AI could narrate the user’s yearly highlights.

It seems that this feature may come as an opt-in option, allowing users who prefer not to use it to disable the feature. The code suggests that Google could launch this enhancement sometime in December.

Source