Releases·Model Release
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS
Google announced two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. Flash TTS lets users design custom voices with distinct accents and characteristics, while Flash-Lite TTS targets efficiency and scale, supporting user-created styles or Google's preset voice library. The release gives practitioners built-in speech generation options within the Gemini model family.
564 engagement4 sourcesWed, Sep 23, 2026, 03:28 PM
AI Overview
- Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, adding a Lite tier to its text-to-speech lineup
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS lets users design custom voices with distinct accents and characteristics
- Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS targets efficiency and scale, letting users choose created voice styles or Google's built-in options
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Products·launched
Interactive live AI podcast where listeners talk to the hosts mid-episode
A two-host AI podcast generated with Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and streamed into a live room via Agora RTC. When a listener asks a question, the hosts pause, acknowledge it, and stream a two-host spoken reply before resuming. It solves the lack of interaction in AI-generated podcasts, for anyone wanting live conversational audio shows.
A two-host AI podcast generated with Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and streamed into a live room via Agora RTC. When a listener asks a question, the hosts pause, acknowledge it, and stream a two-host spoken reply before resuming. It solves the lack of interaction in AI-generated podcasts, for anyone wanting live conversational audio shows.
55 engagement2 sourcesredditWed, Sep 23, 2026, 05:57 PM
Social·Community
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS user says the model gave wrong pricing info, billing charges drained his prepaid credit
A hobbyist running a Discord announcer bot for a 7 Days to Die server replaced local Piper TTS with Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, praising its quality. Relying on Gemini's own chat answers, he believed the free 15M-token tier would cover ~8 hours of voice and that adding prepaid billing would keep costs at zero — but usage drew down paid credit instead, and low daily request limits made the free tier impractical. He plans to finish his remaining credit, then return to Piper, which he considers far cheaper.
A hobbyist running a Discord announcer bot for a 7 Days to Die server replaced local Piper TTS with Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, praising its quality. Relying on Gemini's own chat answers, he believed the free 15M-token tier would cover ~8 hours of voice and that adding prepaid billing would keep costs at zero — but usage drew down paid credit instead, and low daily request limits made the free tier impractical. He plans to finish his remaining credit, then return to Piper, which he considers far cheaper.
16 engagement1 sourceredditWed, Sep 30, 2026, 06:56 PM
Products·launched
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.
0 engagement1 sourcerssWed, Sep 23, 2026, 05:12 PM
Social·Community
Has anyone else noticed wrong gender labels in the new Gemini TTS Voices API?
A developer testing Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS found voices returned by the GET /v1beta/voices endpoint labeled male that audibly generate as female. They flag ar-001-advisor-2 and it-it-storyteller-5 as examples and suspect a metadata error in the newly launched Voices API and extended voice library.
A developer testing Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS found voices returned by the GET /v1beta/voices endpoint labeled male that audibly generate as female. They flag ar-001-advisor-2 and it-it-storyteller-5 as examples and suspect a metadata error in the newly launched Voices API and extended voice library.
409 engagement2 sourcesreddit, youtubeThu, Sep 24, 2026, 06:49 AM
Social·Community
Google's Gemini 3.8: Differences Between Low and High Modes and Updates from June to September 2026
Medium post compares Gemini 3.8 Low and High operating modes and June–September 2026 updates
Medium post compares Gemini 3.8 Low and High operating modes and June–September 2026 updates
0 engagement1 sourcerssSun, Oct 4, 2026, 12:45 PM