Google for Developers introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. The audio models improve turn-taking and near real-time reasoning, replacing cascaded speech-to-text, reasoning, and text-to-speech stacks with one multimodal API call. They are available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.

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  • โœ“Google for Developers introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. The audio models improve turn-taking and near real-time reasoning, replacing cascaded speech-to-text, reasoning, and text-to-speech stacks with one multimodal API call. They are available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
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