Gemini 3.8 Live is Google's default low-latency voice agent model supporting real-time dialogue, interleaved reasoning, and asynchronous function calling with built-in audio streaming. Migration from Gemini 3.1 Flash Live requires updating the model string, removing thinking_level configuration, adapting to async function calling as default, and adjusting client content updates and proactive audio settings.
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new AI models designed for real-time voice conversations and complex reasoning tasks. The models deliver near real-time processing, multi-language support, and tool execution capabilities, with 3.8 Live Extended Thinking achieving top scores on Speech to Speech Quality benchmarks while maintaining competitive pricing.
Famulor offers a white-label AI voice and chat agent platform for agencies and resellers to rebrand and resell to their clients. The platform includes omnichannel monitoring, workspace management, flexible billing, GDPR compliance, multilingual support, and multiple processing modes, with pricing starting at €499/month plus per-minute charges that decrease at scale.
Duplex Cue is an evaluation framework that measures how voice agents adapt to listener cues during overlapping speech. The study compares PersonaPlex, an AI voice agent, to recorded human speakers across 208 conversation pairs, finding that humans adapt to collaborative cues twice as often as PersonaPlex (68.2% vs 34.8%), while PersonaPlex yields to interruptions more frequently.