Can Your Agent Hear You Now? Building Live Voice Agents with Gemini — Thor Schaeff
An agent that hears you, sees you, and answers in your language, in real time.
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Key points
- Here's how to build one with Gemini.
- Thor Schaeff, who works on developer experience at Google DeepMind, runs a set of live demos of Gemini's real-time and media models.
- He explains how the Live API works: a stateful WebSocket session that takes in text, audio and video and streams back audio plus a transcript, using a native audio model rather than a speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipeline.
- • Near real-time speech translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
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- [1]Can Your Agent Hear You Now? Building Live Voice Agents with Gemini — Thor SchaeffAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 11, 03:00 PM
An agent that hears you, sees you, and answers in your language, in real time.
Here's how to build one with Gemini.
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