TechnologyGoogle adds Live Avatar to Gemini 3.8 Live for enterprise customers
Google says its animated personas can lip-sync, change facial expressions and switch between 97 languages during conversations. Custom avatar creation is restricted to approved enterprise customers.
TLDR
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar on September 24, 2026, with availability in Gemini Enterprise. The company says it pairs near real-time video generation with speech and can fetch data or run tools in the background while continuing a conversation. Google offers preset avatars and says organizations can generate custom ones from high-quality reference images, though custom creation requires enterprise allowlisting. The company says audio and video output includes its imperceptible SynthID watermark to help identify AI-generated content.
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Google adds Live Avatar to Gemini 3.8 Live for enterprise customers
Google says its animated personas can lip-sync, change facial expressions and switch between 97 languages during conversations. Custom avatar creation is restricted to approved enterprise customers.
TLDR
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar on September 24, 2026, with availability in Gemini Enterprise. The company says it pairs near real-time video generation with speech and can fetch data or run tools in the background while continuing a conversation. Google offers preset avatars and says organizations can generate custom ones from high-quality reference images, though custom creation requires enterprise allowlisting. The company says audio and video output includes its imperceptible SynthID watermark to help identify AI-generated content.