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Gemini 3.8 Live
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by Google
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPI
RANKED #213 OF 300 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #331 OF 6,837 · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 46 VOICES
Speech generation model for controllable voice, narration, and audio delivery
HAPPY8.4
9 mentions
SAD6.6
5 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 168 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
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.
Qwen3.8 27BWHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Gemini 3.8 Live yet to call it. We found 46 posts but people did not say much either way.
45 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · DEV.TO · BLOG · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- 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…
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-15 · 5 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio-to-audio
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio-to-audio
- GITHUB · 2026-09-15 · 1 UPVOTESfeat: add Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking quickstart and thinking level configuration
feat: add Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking quickstart and thinking level configuration
- GITHUB · 2026-09-16 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(klex): add Gemini 3.8 Live realtime model support
Summary Adds support for Google's newly released Gemini 3.8 Live model (gemini-3.8-live) to Klex's realtime voice architecture, enabling speech-to-speech sessions via Google's Multimodal Live WebSocket protocol (BidiGenerateContent). Key Changes 1. Model…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-16 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(agents): Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking + Greptile free-only lite
Summary - Encode Gemini 3.8 Live vs Extended Thinking dual-mode routing, early ack, progress narration, background tools, SynthID awareness, and budget-gated Live API into AGENT_CODING_STACK SSOT (Google blog 2026-09-15). - Encode Greptile free-only policy…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-16 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(mira): add Gemini 3.8 Live Flash and Pro modes
feat(mira): add Gemini 3.8 Live Flash and Pro modes
- GITHUB · 2026-09-15 · 0 UPVOTESSupport Gemini 3.8 Live extended thinking
Support Gemini 3.8 Live extended thinking
- GITHUB · 2026-09-15 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(DO): add Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking voice
feat(DO): add Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking voice
- GITHUB · 2026-09-16 · 0 UPVOTESAdd Gemini 3.8 voice to DO and repair public sign-in
Add Gemini 3.8 voice to DO and repair public sign-in
- GITHUB · 2026-09-15 · 0 UPVOTESFeat/do gemini 38 live
Feat/do gemini 38 live
- GITHUB · 2026-09-15 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(ai): Gemini 3.8 Live + Extended Thinking — implementation plan
feat(ai): Gemini 3.8 Live + Extended Thinking — implementation plan