Google Expands Search Live Worldwide With Gemini 3.1 Flash Live

Google is taking Search Live much wider. On March 26, the company said the voice-and-camera search feature is expanding to every language and location where the AI Mode is already available. A footprint Google says now covers more than 200 countries and territories.

The feature is simple to describe and that is probably part of the appeal. Now you can directly talk to Search out loud, ask follow-up questions, and point your phone’s camera at whatever you need help with. Search replies in audio while it surfaces links from the web, so it does not fully leave the normal search experience behind. 

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Google says it is available in the Google app on Android and iOS through the Live button under the search bar, and you can also get to it through Lens.

What is changing now is not the existence of Search Live but its reach. Google first started talking about these live, Astra-style search interactions at I/O 2025, then rolled them out in steps. Search Live became broadly available in the US last September, and before this expansion it had also reached many other countries including India.

That is where Gemini 3.1 Flash Live comes in. Google says the new model makes Search Live faster, more natural to talk to, and better across languages. A feature like this only works if the conversation feels smooth enough to use more than once.