What Is Gemini Live and How Do You Use It? [Video]

Google launched a barrage of new hardware this week, from the Pixel 9 smartphones to new wireless earbuds. Underpinning all the shiny gadgetry is Google’s Gemini artificially intelligent assistant. The chatbot launched earlier this year and is now the default assistant on the Pixel 9 series and is already available on millions of Android phones worldwide. But there’s a new way to talk to this chatbot that’s now rolling out: Gemini Live.

This is Google’s response to OpenAI’s GPT-4o, a way to talk to the assistant naturally, much like a normal voice conversation between two humans (or at least that’s the goal). It’s rolling out in English to Gemini Advanced subscribers ($20 per month), and you can access it by tapping on the little Live button at the bottom right of the Gemini app. It will come to the iOS app and more languages in the coming weeks.

Sissie Hsiao, Google’s vice president of Gemini experiences, tells WIRED this chatbot isn’t just a reheated …