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Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS on September 23. They take per-line direction of emotion, pacing and dialect, stage two-speaker scenes natively, cover 100+ languages, and clone a voice from a 30-second sample after consent verification. Google reports 71.4 and first place on Hume AI's Voice Design Benchmark. (Google) Live in AI Studio, Gemini API access rolling out, pricing undisclosed. Separately, Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar went GA on Vertex: native speech-to-speech plus low-latency streamed video of an animated persona that lip-syncs and switches language across 97 languages, with async tool calls to CRM and ERP, US and EU endpoints, provisioned throughput and SynthID watermarking. Custom avatars are allowlist-only. (Google Cloud)
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Google made Gemini 3.6 Flash the default for the antigravity-preview managed agent with no code changes, and added environment hooks that run custom scripts around tool calls: pre_tool_execution can block with a denial reason, post_tool_execution can enforce validation like li...
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