Gemini Live audio

Use this skill when the job is a live spoken interaction, not a batch narration render. Gemini Live is for bidirectional sessions: microphone or streamed media in, spoken model output back, with turn-taking, interruptions, tools, and session lifecycle concerns. If the deliverable is a finished voiceover, audiobook, podcast narration, or offline transcript, prefer a TTS or speech-to-text skill unless the user explicitly needs live turn-taking.

All volatile facts below were verified against official Google AI and Google Cloud documentation on 2026-07-10. Model names, preview/GA status, pricing, rate limits, supported regions, and governance controls change often; re-check official docs before production launch, procurement commitments, or regulated deployment.

Documented facts

Current shape of the product

• Gemini Live API is a stateful WebSocket API for low-latency voice and vision interactions. It can process continuous streams of audio, images, text, and, in API references, video; it returns spoken/audio output and can also return text/function-call events depending on configuration and model.
• Google AI Live API pages currently note that the Interactions API is generally available and recommended for access to the latest features and models. Treat this skill as Live-API-specific guidance; for a greenfield production agent, verify whether Live API or Interactions API is the intended Google surface before committing architecture.
• Google AI Developer API docs mark Live API as Preview. Google Cloud / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform docs separately document Vertex/enterprise availability and a GA Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio model. Treat Developer API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as distinct deployment surfaces with different auth, terms, locations, governance, quotas, and support.
• The principal Live agent model family documented on 2026-07-10 includes gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview in the Developer API docs and gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio / Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API Native Audio in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform docs. Live Translation is documented separately with gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview.
• Use Live Agent mode when the model is an assistant that reasons, asks questions, calls tools, and handles turns. Use Live Translation mode when the model is an interpreter pipeline: audio in one language, translated audio out another. Live Translation is documented as audio-restricted, translation-only, and not a tool/instruction-driven agent surface.

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