Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking speech-to-speech models
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new speech-to-speech models described as its most advanced live dialogue models yet, aimed at enabling voice agents. The models support real-time voice conversations with interruption capability, and a third-party developer has built a browser-based web UI using the WebSocket endpoint and Web Audio API.
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Google : Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents — Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
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Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation and had it build me this web UI for trying out the new models. You can select a model and voice preset, enter an optional system prompt and then start a voice conversation through your browser, including the ability to interrupt the model while it is talking. The implementation uses no libraries. It connects to the wss://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/ws/google.ai.generativelanguage.v1alpha.GenerativeService.BidiGenerateContent?key=... WebSocket endpoint and uses a Web Audio API AudioContext for both capture and playback. Tags: google , tools , websockets , generative-ai , llms , gemini , llm-release , speech-to-text
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