Gemini 3.8 Live Can Talk While It Works: Tops Speech-to-Speech Index at 82.6
heyshrutimishra · x · 2026-09-17
Per the post, Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking can keep talking while it thinks, calls tools, and completes tasks in the background — voice agents no longer have to choose between talking and working.
Reported benchmarks
- #1 on Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech Index: 82.6
- 97.7% on Big Bench Audio
- 68.6% on τ-Voice agentic task completion
The standard Gemini 3.8 Live supports asynchronous tool calls and mid-conversation switching across 97 languages, and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe claims a 2.6% word error rate over 85+ languages. Third-party claims; the version numbering is unverified.
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