Gemini Live, Google’s response to a recently released the newly announced (though in limited alpha) Advanced Voice Mode of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is arriving tomorrow, weeks after it was introduced at Google’s I/O 2024 developers’ conference. It was inaugurated in Google’s Made by Google 2024 event.
Gemini Live is available today to seven countries with the support of 10 new voices but the conversational mode will not be free. Google is currently deploying it in English to the Gemini users who have subscribed to Gemini Advanced service, which is $19.99 and allows using the most potent Gemini of the company. 5 Pro model. Android phones get priority; iOS compatibility will roll out in the coming weeks.
Here’s how Google describes it in a blog post: “As for Gemini Live, which is available through the Gemini app, you can openly chat with Gemini and decide from realistic reaction voices that Gemini is capable of using.
Google also said that over the following two weeks, it will be rolling out new Gemini features for Keep, Tasks, and Utilities, as well as for YouTube Music further bringing in enhancements.
It will have large End and Hold buttons at the bottom of the fullscreen Live UI. As chats will be saved, the users will be in a position to continue the conversations at any given time. In addition, the feature will also provide them with a log of the questions asked and Gemini’s responses to those questions.
It also has what appears as a blue/purple waveform at the top once Gemini Live is running in the background with other apps being in use or when the phone screen is locked. Google says it is going to be as close to a phone call as possible.
Apart from Gemini Live, Google unveiled some other Al enhancements. Currently, the company is expanding Gemini widgets to include support for third-party apps including Keep, Tasks, Utilities, and YouTube Music.
Gemini is also attempting to learn the environment of a user’s screen, like Apple is building This capability allows users to ask Gemini for information about the content of the screen, for instance extracting travel destinations from a video and putting them into Google Maps.