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Google’s Gemini AI assistant is getting new voice chat capabilities for Gemini Advanced subscribers this year. The feature, called Gemini Live, will enable two-way spoken conversation with the chatbot, smart assistant capabilities, and vision features — a lot like what OpenAI is working on for ChatGPT.
Google says Gemini Live will adapt to users’ speech patterns and offer more succinct, conversational responses than the longwinded text-based replies it usually generates. The feature will offer 10 voice options, and the company says it’ll be able to use smartphone cameras to see and interpret real-time video.
As an example of what that looks like, Google shared a demo video with The Verge that showed Gemini being asked to announce when…
