Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available
Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enterprise. First previewed at Google Cloud Next 2026, the technology is now officially ready for enterprise production. As enterprise voice AI evolves beyond basic speed and cost metrics, our priority has shifted to making each interaction even higher quality. Gemini 3.8 Live already delivers a native s
Overview
Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enterprise. First previewed at Google Cloud Next 2026, the technology is now officially ready for enterprise production.
As enterprise voice AI evolves beyond basic speed and cost metrics, our priority has shifted to making each interaction even higher quality. Gemini 3.8 Live already delivers a native speech-to-speech foundation for fluid, responsive dialogue. The Live Avatar feature brings an interactive visual presence to conversational video agents across web, mobile, and interactive kiosks. Together, you’ll have access to:
- Video avatars: Conversational video with the Live Avatar feature can generate video avatars with synchronized lip-syncing. Note: Custom avatar feature is available via allowlist only.
- Fluid dialogue: Native speech-to-speech means more natural interruption recovery without dropping conversation context or backend transactions.
- Easy execution of API, CRM, or ERP calls: With asynchronous tool calling, you can execute calls in the background while the agent continues speaking, which removes dead air.
- Automatically detect and transition across 97 supported languages: Multilingual switching makes it easy to detect and transition between languages mid-conversation, and without manual toggles.
- Make it easy for agents to see what your user sees: Live visual understanding can process live camera feeds and screen shares alongside audio, all at the same time.
Though Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking remains in private preview, Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now available with US and EU endpoints, with provisioned throughput, enterprise compliance, and strict data governance. Try the model and its features in Gemini Enterprise, and start building now with API.
Trust and transparency at its core
To safeguard identity and prevent misuse, customers can deploy from a library of curated, pre-built avatars, while custom avatar creation is gated behind a strict enterprise allowlisting and verification process. Furthermore, all generated audio and video streams carry imperceptible SynthID watermarks, ensuring AI-generated content remains transparent and verifiable.
Three demos of Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in action
#1: Interactive custom avatar
Create an interactive custom avatar in a step-by-step process
Watch how Gemini 3.8 Live makes it possible to build a custom avatar by adding system instructions, uploading a single reference photo and audio file sample.
Demo #2: Live video understanding in a voice-first claims intake
Streamline claims intake with live video understanding using Gemini 3.8 Live
In this demo, you’ll see a common use case come to life using Gemini 3.8 Live: an intake agent. In this scenario, we chose an insurance claims agent. You talk and show the damage on camera, and the claim notebook fills itself in as you go. In the background, an ADK agent team checks the policy, applies the intake rules, and builds the adjuster packet. To dive deeper, check out the open-source code.
#3: A real-time voice AI agent with Google ADK and Gemini Live API
Build a live voice agent using Google ADK and Gemini Live API
See how developers can use Agent Development Kit (ADK) to define agents, manage runners and session memory, and stream real-time audio directly to the Gemini Live API without a traditional speech-to-text pipeline.
How our customers are innovating with Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
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Cox Automotive built an AI-powered shopping assistant for Autotrader that uses live screen-highlighting and tool-calling capabilities to guide car shoppers through vehicle search, comparison, and financing — in real time, through natural conversation.
“Shoppers increasingly expect to describe what they need in their own words rather than work through filters and menus. Autotrader’s new conversational AI Avatar brings that experience to vehicle discovery by matching natural conversation to the right inventory. It is another step toward our vision of connected intelligence, where every consumer interaction draws on the full depth of Cox Automotive data.” — Marianne Johnson, EVP and Chief Product Officer, Cox Automotive.
“We're building a personal AI that knows you, speaks your language, and is always on your side. Today, it handles over a million live calls daily across nine Indian languages. Gemini 3.8 Live improved interruption handling, multilingual conversations, and tool-call reliability. This AI doesn't just answer calls; it gets things done for you.” — Akhilesh Damaraju, CEO, Equal AI.
“We're excited that Gemini 3.8 Live and Agentforce are coming together to reimagine what's possible in intelligent service. This collaboration between Salesforce AI Research and Google combines real-time, multimodal capabilities with agentic AI to explore new ways to create richer, more intuitive customer experiences from first contact to resolution." — Bob Van Osten, VP of Product for Agentforce, Salesforce.
“Our team has been very impressed with Gemini 3.8 Live throughout testing and benchmarking! The updates made to Voice Activity Detection and the improvements to overall latency are huge steps forward and further our ability to deliver the highest quality AI Assistant on the SPECS platform.” — Eric Walsh, Software Engineer, Specs.
Start building today
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar are available now for enterprise customers:
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Try the model in Gemini Enterprise
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Access the Gemini Live API documentation for integration guides
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Review pricing on our pricing page
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Skill for building real-time, bidirectional streaming apps with the Gemini Live
If your application requires specialized, modular audio capabilities, explore our other audio models:
Reach out to your Google Cloud sales representative to activate provisioned throughput, discuss customized deployment architectures and allowlisting for custom avatar.
Source
Originally published at cloud.google.com.
