Industry change
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
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- Google blog
Summary
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, pairing its live dialogue models with near real-time video generation so an agent can listen, see, and speak through an expressive on-screen persona. It supports precise lip-syncing and natural expressions, mid-conversation switching across 97 languages, and asynchronous tool calls that keep the dialogue going while data is fetched in the background. It is available now in Gemini Enterprise, watermarks audio and video output with SynthID, and lets allowlisted organizations build custom avatars from a reference image.
Why it matters for our work
Customer-facing enterprise agents that look, listen, and speak like people are now a shipping product rather than a demo. As the cost and scale assumptions of live customer interaction shift, organizations across service industries will have to work out where human staff add the most value.
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