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Google has announced the availability of Gemini 3.8 Live, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The models are designed to build voice agents capable of maintaining conversations and completing tasks, alongside low-error speech-to-text conversion across more than 85 languages.