GoKawiilGoogle adds Live Avatar feature to Gemini 3.8 Live for enterprise customers
Google has released Live Avatar, a new addition to its Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking models that pairs real-time video personas with the platform's voice dialogue capabilities. The avatars can lip-sync, show facial expressions, and hold fluid conversations while using Gemini's reasoning to fetch data and trigger tool calls mid-dialogue. The feature is limited to Gemini Enterprise customers, who can choose from preset avatars or build custom ones from reference images via enterprise allowlisting, with all output watermarked using Google's SynthID.
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By restricting the tool to enterprise customers building things like sales and customer service bots, Google appears to be positioning Live Avatar as an infrastructure product rather than a consumer feature, which could accelerate the replacement of human-staffed chat and phone support with animated AI agents. The emphasis on watermarking and identity safeguards suggests Google is trying to get ahead of concerns about deceptive or unauthorized use of realistic synthetic personas before the technology becomes widespread. Ordinary users may soon encounter these avatars without necessarily knowing which companies have deployed them or how.
- Live Avatar adds real-time video personas to Google's existing Gemini 3.8 Live voice models
- The feature is available only to Gemini Enterprise customers, aimed at uses like sales and customer service
- All avatar output is watermarked with SynthID as part of Google's stated identity and transparency safeguards
Source: engadget.com — Steve Dent, 2026-09-25
Published there as: “Google adds creepy avatars to Gemini 3.8 live's agents”
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