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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with prompt-designed and replicated voices

Google has begun rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, adding prompt-designed voices, 30-second voice replication with matched verbal consent and line-by-line performance control. Paid standard API pricing through 31 December is $0.50 per million text input tokens and $9 per million audio output tokens for Flash, or $6 for Flash-Lite; Gemini Enterprise API access is still coming soon.

Google - Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello · Google DeepMind - Gemini 3.8 Audio model card

AI · Articlepublished 7d

Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live with background tool calls during voice conversations

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking through the Live API and Google AI Studio, adding asynchronous tool calls that can run while a voice conversation continues. Google prices audio input at $0.005 per minute and output at $0.018 per minute, while long persistent sessions can become more expensive because active context is reprocessed across turns.

Google — Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking · Google for Developers — Build real-time voice applications with Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe