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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, per its official site.

First seen 23 Sep, 15:25 UTC on deepmind.google7 sourcesLast update 25d ago

What the sources say

Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.

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deepmind.google· 23 Sep, 15:25Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hellodeepmind.google· 24 Sep, 16:20Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

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The Decoder· 23 Sep, 17:39Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptionsSiliconANGLE· 24 Sep, 00:22Google launches two benchmark-topping speech generation modelsThe Verge· 24 Sep, 19:59Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google's AI a face

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Hacker News· 23 Sep, 15:29Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello15 points · 2 commentsr/singularity· 23 Sep, 17:00Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS Announced

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.

23 Sep 15:25deepmind.google Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello23 Sep 15:29Hacker News Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello23 Sep 17:00r/singularity Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS Announced23 Sep 17:39The Decoder Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions24 Sep 00:22SiliconANGLE Google launches two benchmark-topping speech generation models24 Sep 16:20deepmind.google Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar24 Sep 19:59The Verge Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google's AI a face

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