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TL;DR Google is now rolling out Gemini’s new Avatar feature more widely to paid subscribers in the Gemini app.
The tool lets users create an AI-generated clone of themselves using their face and voice, powered by Google’s new Omni model.
Every generated video includes an invisible SynthID watermark and requires users to be at least 18 years old.
There’s a moment during Gemini’s new Avatar setup process when things suddenly stop feeling like a fun AI demo and become extremely uncanny.
You sit there staring into your phone’s camera while Gemini asks you to slowly move your head from side to side and read out random numbers. A few seconds later, Google spits out a digital version of you, complete with your face and your voice. Then you watch it speak in videos you never actually recorded.
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Google is now rolling out Gemini’s new Avatar feature more widely for paid Gemini subscribers, months after we first spotted the feature during an APK teardown back in March.
You can find and create your Gemini Avatar from the Gemini app under Settings > Avatar. The feature uses Google’s new Omni model to recreate your actual appearance and voice so you can generate content starring yourself. Once setup is complete, you can summon your avatar directly in Gemini chats by typing commands like @me or @your user name.
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