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Gemini 3.8

Current stateLive with Live Avatar: GAstatus changed Sep 24

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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar reached general availability in Gemini Enterprise on September 24, a week after the Live and Extended Thinking launch.

Earlier contextThe story so far

Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live with an Extended Thinking mode on September 15, adding real-time reasoning to the 3.8 line's voice and video agent capabilities. It followed up on September 23 with two new Flash-tier text-to-speech models carrying a 2,000+ voice library.

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Sep 15Sep 24 · now
LAUNCH · Sep 15
Gemini 3.8 Live ships with an Extended Thinking mode
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Gemini Live audio

simon_willisonSep 15

Independent same-day comparison of Gemini Live against OpenAI's GPT-Live family.

NEW CAPABILITY · Sep 23
Two new Gemini 3.8 TTS models ship with 2,000+ voices
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COMMUNITY · Sep 23–24
Developers build a TTS playground and a voice-direction guide
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GENERAL AVAILABILITY · Sep 24
Live with Live Avatar goes GA in Gemini Enterprise
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What to watch — open questions

  • Do the new TTS models support streaming synthesis for real-time voice agents, or batch-only output?
  • How does gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts's latency and per-character cost compare to competing low-latency TTS APIs?
  • Is Live Avatar available outside the Gemini Enterprise tier, or gated behind that tier's pricing?
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