Earlier this month, Google started emailing Gemini Live users about an upgrade that makes “your conversations even more dynamic and engaging.” It’s rolling out now, and here’s how to check if you have the new Gemini Live update.
The new Gemini Live experience is thanks to the “latest model.” It allows Live to “better understand multiple languages, dialects, or accents,” as well as “help with your translation needs.”
People that have this upgrade are noticing the expanded language support, specifically “less common ones.” At the moment, you can manually set two out of 45 languages, or talk with a subset of some languages.
However, the real indicator that you have this new Gemini Live is opening the profile menu > Gemini Apps Activity. The original Gemini Live just logs text transcripts, while this update includes the actual audio of your conversation. When Astra arrives, video and screenshares will also be saved here.
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Google has yet to official detail this update, but Gemini 2.0 offers a a Multimodal Live API for developers that can process text, audio, and video input, while outputting text and audio
This is not yet widely rolled out. The one report of this rolling out is for a Pixel 9 Pro XL owner with Gemini Advanced. Given that the email notice was also sent to free Gemini users, there should eventually be wide availability.
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