Artificial Intelligence
Google adds Live Avatar to Gemini 3.8 Live
Google said its Gemini 3.8 Live model gained a Live Avatar feature that lets users talk to the system while an animated persona responds in real time, with access limited to Gemini Enterprise customers.
- Google said Live Avatar let users hold conversations with Gemini 3.8 Live while watching an animated persona respond in real time.
- The company said the avatar could lip-sync and change facial expressions, and that it supported 97 languages.
- Google said Live Avatar could switch between languages without reducing video quality or causing visual drift.
- A Google video showed the avatar speaking in English and Japanese and displaying information on screen while it talked.
- Google said customers could choose from preset avatars or create their own, and that output carried an invisible SynthID watermark and identity safeguards.
Google said its Gemini 3.8 Live update added Live Avatar, a feature that let users talk to the model while an animated persona answered in real time. The company said the avatar could lip-sync and vary its facial expressions during the exchange.
According to Google, Live Avatar supported 97 languages and could move between them without harming video quality or producing visual drift. The company also published a video showing the avatar speaking in English and Japanese while its mouth movements matched the audio.
Google said the feature was available only to Gemini Enterprise customers. It also said organisations could pick from preset avatars or build their own.
In addition, Google said the avatar output included an invisible SynthID watermark and safeguards intended to respect identity. The launch came about a week after Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live, which it said processed visual inputs in near real time.
Named in this story
Companies
- announced the Live Avatar update
Products and systems
- Gemini 3.8 Live
- received the Live Avatar feature
- Live Avatar
- animated persona that responded during conversations
- Gemini Enterprise
- the customer tier that could use the feature
- SynthID
- provided the invisible watermark on output
How the source tells it
The piece had a promotional, product-launch register, built from Google’s own claims and demo material rather than independent scrutiny.
- vendor boosterism the feature was presented through Google’s launch claims and a polished demonstration
- novelty the story centred on an animated persona that gave the model a human-like face
- reassurance it paired the launch with mentions of watermarking and identity safeguards