#text-to-speech + #speech-to-text

Public notes from activescott tagged with both #text-to-speech and #speech-to-text

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

  • Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Built for deep creative direction and character design. Create entirely new voices from scratch using natural language prompts to bring characters to life across gaming, immersive audiobooks, podcasts, and interactive media. Direct every performance line by line with granular control over acting cues, pacing, dialect shifts, and backchanneling.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Built for high-volume, cost-efficient scale. Optimized for high-volume dubbing, audio content creation, and expressive voice agents with fine-grained control over tone, pacing, and expressive nuance.

These models complement our fast-growing Gemini Audio family, following 3.5 Live Translate, 3.5 Transcribe, 3.8 Live, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking.