GoKawiilGoogle adds Live Avatar visual personas to Gemini 3.8 Live for enterprise bots
Google has launched Live Avatar, a feature within Gemini 3.8 Live that pairs real-time video generation with speech models to give AI agents lip-synced, expressive on-screen personas. The avatars support 97 languages, can switch between them without quality loss, and use asynchronous tool calling to fetch data mid-conversation. The feature launches today exclusively for Gemini Enterprise subscribers, not general consumers.
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By giving customer-service bots a visible, expressive face, Google is betting that businesses will pay for interactions that feel less robotic, which could push rivals in the enterprise AI space to add similar visual layers. Restricting the feature to Gemini Enterprise suggests Google sees this as a monetizable business tool first, with any consumer rollout likely to come later if it proves popular.
- Live Avatar combines real-time video generation with speech in Gemini 3.8 Live
- It supports 97 languages with adaptive lip-syncing and facial expressions
- Available now only to Gemini Enterprise subscribers, not general consumers
Source: androidauthority.com, 2026-09-24
Published there as: “Google’s new Gemini Live Avatars want to make support bots feel more human”
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