Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents

Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most superior dwell dialogue fashions up to now. Both are native speech to speech fashions constructed for actual time voice brokers. They prolong the Gemini Audio household that Google expanded final month with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. The launch targets a particular hole: voice brokers that may purpose and execute instruments with out breaking conversational movement.

Is it deployable? Yes, for API primarily based manufacturing use. Both fashions are dwell in the present day within the Gemini Live API and Google AI Studio. They are hosted fashions, not open weights, so there isn’t a self hosted possibility.