Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live voice models: 97 languages with switching in the middle of a conversation
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Talking to SI by voice in any of almost a hundred languages is becoming commonplace, and the language barrier to knowledge keeps falling.
There are two models: Gemini 3.8 Live, cheap and scalable, grounded in the camera image, and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, for complex multi-step tasks. Extended Thinking scored 82.6 on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech quality index and 97.7% on Big Bench Audio. The models are available to developers in the Gemini API and AI Studio, and to users in Search Live, Gemini Live, Workspace, Gmail and Keep; all generated audio is watermarked with SynthID.
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