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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google's AI a face
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, pairing near real-time video generation with speech on its native live dialogue models. The feature creates animated personas with precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid turn-taking, and is available now in Gemini Enterprise. It supports 97 languages with seamless mid-conversation switching and asynchronous tool calling during dialogue.
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AI Overview
- Google's Gemini 3.8 Live adds a lip-syncing, expressive Live Avatar for real-time conversations, currently limited to Gemini Enterprise customers.
- Google says Live Avatar switches among its 97 supported languages "without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift."
- A Google demo shows Live Avatar speaking English and Japanese with matching mouth animation and pulling up on-screen information.
- Live Avatar runs asynchronous tool calls in the background while dialogue continues, demoed checking in a hotel guest.
- Developers can generate custom avatars from a reference image preserving likeness and brand styling, currently enterprise-allowlist only.
- All audio and video output carries an imperceptible SynthID watermark for AI-content detection.
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Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its latest conversational AI models focused on real-time voice interaction. Both models add upgraded reasoning, near real-time visual understanding, automatic language detection across 97 languages, and background tool calling that runs without interrupting the chat. A demonstration shows the Extended Thinking model acting as a programming tutor.
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its latest conversational AI models focused on real-time voice interaction. Both models add upgraded reasoning, near real-time visual understanding, automatic language detection across 97 languages, and background tool calling that runs without interrupting the chat. A demonstration shows the Extended Thinking model acting as a programming tutor.
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Thor Schaeff demos Gemini Live voice agents: native audio API, Live Translate, and Lyria 3 tool calls
In an AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 talk, Thor Schaeff of Google DeepMind demos building real-time voice and vision agents with Gemini. He shows the Live API's native audio architecture, the stateful Interactions API for consistent image generation, Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, and tool-calling with Lyria 3. The talk gives practitioners a concrete walkthrough of Google's current voice-agent stack.
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Releases·Tool Release
Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, letting users manage Gmail, Docs, and Keep by talking to them. The real-time conversational features build on the Gemini Live experience and target situations like capturing or finding information on the move when typing is impractical.
Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, letting users manage Gmail, Docs, and Keep by talking to them. The real-time conversational features build on the Gemini Live experience and target situations like capturing or finding information on the move when typing is impractical.
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Users impressed by ChatGPT Live voice update with bidirectional conversation
A Reddit user reports being impressed by a new update to ChatGPT's voice conversations, noting that the AI can now cut in mid-sentence, making conversations less redundant and more natural. The user highlights potential applications like language learning, where the AI could interrupt to correct grammatical mistakes.
A Reddit user reports being impressed by a new update to ChatGPT's voice conversations, noting that the AI can now cut in mid-sentence, making conversations less redundant and more natural. The user highlights potential applications like language learning, where the AI could interrupt to correct grammatical mistakes.
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Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground — browser tool for trying Google's new text-to-speech models
A web playground by Simon Willison for testing Google's newly released gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts text-to-speech models. Built quickly by vibe coding, it lets users generate speech with the models' voice library or custom voices. It solves the problem of easily evaluating new TTS models without writing API code.
A web playground by Simon Willison for testing Google's newly released gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts text-to-speech models. Built quickly by vibe coding, it lets users generate speech with the models' voice library or custom voices. It solves the problem of easily evaluating new TTS models without writing API code.
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