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Gemini 3.8 Live
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RANKED #235 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #351 OF 494 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 571 VOICES ·
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Speech generation model for controllable voice, narration, and audio delivery
HAPPY8.1
95 mentions
SAD6.9
76 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 666 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Google hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Gemini 3.8 Live is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
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Nemotron 3.5 Super VLWHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Gemini 3.8 Live right now.
565 POSTS · 6 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV.TO · BLOG · BLUESKY
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- People find it expensive (2 mentions)
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- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-15 · 185 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- BLOG · 2026-09-15 · 32 UPVOTESGemini Live audio
Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a similar shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. I pointed GPT-6 Astra Extra High at the documentation and had it build me this…
- BLOG · 2026-09-16 · 32 UPVOTES[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs
AIEi Paris (Sep 23-24) and AIE NYC (Oct 12-14) is >50% sold out, AIE CODE ( Nov 10-12 in SF ) and AIEi Shanghai (Nov 5-6) are next on deck before AIEi Sydney (Dec 7-8 alongside NeurIPS) closes the year! It’s very rare that a new startup launch will make title…
- DEV.TO · 2026-09-16 · 24 UPVOTESBuild real-time voice applications with Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe
Build real-time voice applications with Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-15 · 5 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio-to-audio
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio-to-audio
- DEV.TO · 2026-09-16 · 5 UPVOTESGoogle's New Gemini Voice Models Change The Rules For Agent State Management
Google's New Gemini Voice Models Change The Rules For Agent State Management
- GITHUB · 2026-09-28 · 2 UPVOTESchore(skills): re-vendor supabase, mastra and gemini upstreams
chore(skills): re-vendor supabase, mastra and gemini upstreams
- GITHUB · 2026-09-24 · 1 UPVOTESfeat(cost-map): add vertex_ai/gemini-3.8-live
feat(cost-map): add vertex_ai/gemini-3.8-live
- GITHUB · 2026-09-27 · 1 UPVOTESAdd Gemini Live token routes for Conduit's voice mode
Add Gemini Live token routes for Conduit's voice mode
- GITHUB · 2026-09-25 · 1 UPVOTESchore(cost-map): sync gemini priority, flex and video token prices from the Gemini API pricing page
chore(cost-map): sync gemini priority, flex and video token prices from the Gemini API pricing page
- GITHUB · 2026-10-11 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(jarvis): migrate System 2 to gemini-3.8-live GA on Vertex AI (VMER-2031)
feat(jarvis): migrate System 2 to gemini-3.8-live GA on Vertex AI (VMER-2031)
- GITHUB · 2026-09-16 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(klex): add Gemini 3.8 Live realtime model support
feat(klex): add Gemini 3.8 Live realtime model support