Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar for Enterprise
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Live, a real-time conversational AI update featuring Live Avatar, an animated persona that lip-syncs and displays facial expressions during interactions. The feature is currently available only to Gemini Enterprise customers and supports 97 languages without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift.
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Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports "without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift." One video shared by Google shows its Live Avatar talking in English and Japanese, with its mouth animation lining up with what it's saying in both languages. It can also pull up information on-screen w … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Emma Roth / The Verge : Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers — Google's Live Avatar can lip-sync and show different facial expressions. … Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users …
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