Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live adds Live Avatar, a real-time animated face for enterprise customers across 97 languages.
Google added Live Avatar to Gemini 3.8 Live, letting Gemini Enterprise users talk with an animated persona that lip-syncs and changes facial expressions in real time. Google says the avatar can switch among 97 languages without degrading video fidelity and can show information on screen while speaking. Organizations can pick preset avatars or create their own. Output includes Google's invisible SynthID watermark and safeguards intended to respect identity. The feature follows last week's Gemini 3.8 Live launch, which Google says processes visual inputs in near real time.
- Live Avatar lip-syncs and changes expressions during real-time Gemini conversations.
- Feature is limited to Gemini Enterprise customers, with presets and custom avatars.
- Avatars support 97 languages without claimed loss of video fidelity.
- Outputs carry an invisible SynthID watermark and identity safeguards.
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Google’s new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The “Live Avatar” will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it’s currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers.
As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports “without degrading video fidelity or introducing visual drift.” One video shared by Google shows its Live Avatar talking in English and Japanese, with its mouth animation lining up with what it’s saying in both languages. It can also pull up information on-screen while it talks.
The launch of Live Avatar comes about a week after Google revealed its new Gemini 3.8 Live model, which the company says “processes visual inputs in near real-time.” Though Google will offer a library of preset avatars for customers to choose from, it will also allow organizations to create their own. Google says output from its Live Avatar comes with its invisible SynthID watermark alongside safeguards to “respect identity.”
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