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# Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available

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## Summary

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enterprise, following its preview at Google Cloud Next 2026. It adds video avatars with synchronized lip-syncing, native speech-to-speech dialogue with improved interruption handling, asynchronous tool calling for API/CRM/ERP calls, automatic multilingual switching across 97 languages, and live visual understanding of camera feeds and screen shares. It ships with US and EU endpoints, provisioned throughput, enterprise compliance, and SynthID watermarking on generated audio/video. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking remains in private preview. Customer examples include Cox Automotive's Autotrader shopping assistant, Equal AI's multilingual voice agent, Salesforce Agentforce integration, and Specs' AI assistant.

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## Questions this post answers

### What new features does Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar add for building voice AI agents?

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar adds video avatars with synchronized lip-syncing, native speech-to-speech dialogue with improved interruption recovery, asynchronous tool calling for background API, CRM, or ERP calls, automatic language switching across 97 supported languages, and live visual understanding that processes camera feeds and screen shares alongside audio simultaneously.

_Developers building voice agents can track Gemini Live capability updates like these on daily.dev._

### Is Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available or still in preview?

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is generally available in Gemini Enterprise with US and EU endpoints, provisioned throughput, enterprise compliance, and strict data governance, after first being previewed at Google Cloud Next 2026. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, a separate related model, remains in private preview.

_Teams evaluating enterprise-ready voice AI options follow rollout stages like this on daily.dev._

### How does Gemini 3.8 Live prevent misuse of AI-generated avatars?

Customers must deploy from a library of curated, pre-built avatars, while custom avatar creation is gated behind a strict enterprise allowlisting and verification process. All generated audio and video streams carry imperceptible SynthID watermarks so AI-generated content remains transparent and verifiable.

_Anyone weighing trust and safety trade-offs in AI avatar tools can follow developments like this on daily.dev._

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