voice-ai
Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live and a separate Extended Thinking voice model News
Google’s new Gemini 3.8 Live endpoints add real-time visual grounding, 97-language switching and asynchronous tools, while the separate Extended Thinking model trades conversational preference for deeper voice-agent reasoning.
OpenAI Rebuilt Voice So the Model Itself Decides When to Talk News
OpenAI's engineering posts on GPT-Live describe removing the separate turn detector from the audio path entirely and cutting session startup from six network round trips to one, treating a voice conversation as a live media system rather than a model feature.
NVIDIA's Open Full-Duplex Voice Model Wants an 80GB GPU News
NVIDIA released an 11-billion-parameter speech model that listens and speaks at the same time and calls tools mid-conversation, and its own documentation requires a GPU with at least 80 GB of memory and lists more than a dozen failure modes.
Full-Duplex Speech Models: Listening and Talking at the Same Time Lesson
A full-duplex speech model processes incoming audio while it is generating outgoing audio, which removes the turn detector that decides when you have stopped speaking and makes interruption, backchannels, and overlap possible.
OpenAI Launches Presence, an Enterprise Product for Voice and Chat Agents News
OpenAI released Presence, a high-touch enterprise product for deploying voice and chat agents, and said its own phone-support channel now resolves 75% of issues without a human.
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking Tool
A separate Gemini Live endpoint for multi-step spoken tasks with background reasoning, progress narration and asynchronous tools.
Gemini 3.8 Live Tool
Google’s low-latency multimodal voice endpoint supports streaming audio, visual input and asynchronous function calls.