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ElevenLabs released two new speech models, v4 and v4 Turbo, adding expanded expression control, faster voice cloning from just 10 seconds of audio, and support for over 90 languages, up from 70. The company said quality improved most notably in Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin and Cantonese, and the new models offer lower latency aimed at voice agent applications.
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.
Google unveiled two new Gemini models focused on real-time voice interaction: Gemini 3.8 Live, designed for scalable, cost-efficient conversational AI, and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, aimed at complex multi-step reasoning tasks. Both models are meant to power more natural voice agents and improve spoken interactions across the Gemini app, Google Workspace, and Search.