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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs near real-time speech and video with a responsive visual persona, including asynchronous tool use and multilingual lip-sync.
Why it matters: For organizations designing conversational services or walkthroughs, the feature aims to make interactions more visually present while letting agents fetch data without pausing dialogue. Language coverage, brand customization, enterprise availability, and the allowlisting condition are relevant deployment details.
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