Gemini Live Voice

Gemini Live is Google's native audio AI that processes audio directly without converting to text first. Traditional voice AI uses a pipeline: Speech-to-Text -> LLM -> Text-to-Speech. Gemini Live skips this entirely, understanding audio natively and generating speech directly. This results in lower latency, more natural conversations, and emotional understanding.

Affective dialog is Gemini Live's ability to understand and respond to emotional cues in speech. It detects frustration, excitement, confusion, and adjusts its tone accordingly. If a customer sounds frustrated, the AI responds with empathy. This creates more human-like, emotionally intelligent conversations.

Gemini Live 2.5 offers 30 HD voices with distinct personalities - from warm and friendly to professional and authoritative. Each voice has natural variation in pitch, pace, and emotion. Voices are available in 24 languages, with multiple options per language for Hindi, English, Spanish, and more.

Traditional voice AI (STT + LLM + TTS) typically has 500-800ms latency. Gemini Live achieves under 300ms end-to-end latency because it processes audio natively without the intermediate text conversion steps. This makes conversations feel more natural with minimal pause between turns.

Yes, Gemini Live 2.5 has improved interruption handling. Users can naturally interrupt the AI mid-sentence, and it responds immediately like a human would. The AI tracks conversation context even when interrupted and can smoothly resume or pivot based on the interruption.

Gemini Live supports 24 languages including English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and more. For Indian market, Hindi is well-supported with natural-sounding voices. Language can be auto-detected or specified per session.

Use Gemini Live for: premium customer service requiring emotional intelligence, voice companions/assistants, high-end sales calls, and any use case where natural conversation matters. Use traditional pipeline for: cost-sensitive applications, when you need specific STT/TTS providers, or when you need transcription records.

Gemini Live is priced as a premium tier, billed per minute of conversation. It's more expensive than traditional STT+LLM+TTS but provides superior quality. For high-value interactions (sales, premium support), the improved conversion and satisfaction often justifies the cost. Contact us for volume pricing.