Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Summary

Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which pairs near real-time video generation with speech so an AI persona can listen, see, and speak with enterprise users. The feature is available now in Gemini Enterprise, supports 97 languages with adaptive lip-sync, and allows custom avatars created from a reference image through enterprise allowlisting. Output is watermarked with SynthID.

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