Google Meet currently requires you to generate a link to start a meeting. While this is convenient for group meetings, it’s an extra step for one-on-one conversations. To address this issue and reduce the friction to initiate a meeting, Google Meet will soon add a direct calling feature for 1:1 calls within the Gmail app (in case you haven’t disabled it yet).
As the name suggests, the feature will help you instantly initiate calls by tapping the call icon without having to send an invite link. Pressing the call button will ring the recipient’s Gmail app and send a call chip to Gmail on the web. The recipient can choose to attend the call from the device of their choice.
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Apart from these, Google is also working to translate meetings from English to French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The company hopes to support more languages in the future.
