Key Takeaways
- Gemini Live is like ChatGPT voice chat, allowing conversational interactions.
- Users can interrupt the AI, switch voices, and resume chats later.
- Gemini Live is currently only available in English, and requires a Google One AI Premium subscription.
Google is today beginning to roll out Gemini Live, a conversational version of the company’s generative AI. The tech is similar to ChatGPT’s voice chat mode, letting people go back and forth with Gemini instead of making one-off requests. Its functions aren’t fundamentally different — but users can interrupt the AI’s answers, and quickly follow up on requests without having to remind Gemini about the context.
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Users can also switch between 10 different voices — male and female — and pause a conversation if you want to resume it later. Perhaps more importantly, Gemini Live can continue running in the background of Android, even when your phone or tablet is locked. When it’s foregrounded, it gets a fullscreen interface with special effects.
There are some major limitations at the moment. Gemini Live is only available in English, and you’ll also need an Android device signed in to Gemini Advanced, which comes bundled with a Google One AI Premium subscription. That’s $20 per month, although you do of course get perks like 2TB of Google Drive storage. Support for iOS and other languages is promised “in the coming weeks.”
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