Gemini 3.8 Live

Gemini 3.8 Live is Google DeepMind's cost-efficient voice model, combining conversational intelligence, fluid dialogue and visual grounding, built for scale. It processes voice and visual inputs in near real time, supports 97 languages with automatic mid-conversation language detection and switching, can call tools and APIs, and executes background tasks without interrupting the dialogue. All generated audio is watermarked with SynthID.

The model rolled out on September 15, 2026 — for developers via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, and for users in Search Live, among others. It is marketed as highly cost-effective and ranked second in the Speech Agent Arena. A higher-tier variant, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, targets high-complexity tasks.