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To our most astute listeners, if you've noticed a fresh change in our sound— you're spot on.
Our AI hosts would love to explain what's happening (and what you can look forward to)!
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Simon retweeted
Proud of the team for delivering the most natural and expressive speech model I’ve ever used (by far).
One simple insight was that text-to-speech isn’t a “small model” problem anymore - the more frontier the model, the better it understands what it’s saying, the more it will sound like it understands what it’s saying.
This isn’t just text-to-speech, but frontier audio generation, including an endpoint to design and edit voices using text prompts. Try generating voices with any nuanced dialect, accent, or generational speaking style - AI should communicate in the exact style that specific users are most comfortable with. Or fun things like “Vampire meditation guide with Transylvanian accent,” “Swedish ASMR furniture review,” “goblin auctioneer selling rare mythical objects,” “tinny monotone robot selling neural transplant upgrades,” etc. AI doesn’t need to sound human, it should just be maximally understandable (and fun to use!).
Audio is the primordial way humans communicate. As we approach human-level speech capabilities - which has admittedly taken a bit longer than text - I expect it to become the primary way we interact with AI, online in real-time applications and offline in education, entertainment, etc. And everyone should have their own trusted AI they recognize by voice.
We’re launching Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS ⚡️
Our most expressive audio models yet let you create custom voices across 100+ languages or pick from 2,000+ ready-to-use ones. You can direct back-and-forth conversations, guide the delivery line-by-line, and add natural cues like <laughs> or an active listening interjection like |mhm| all while generating hours of consistent, glitch-free audio.
Sounds pretty cool, right? So… how should you use them?
— Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Need to design bespoke vocal personas from scratch and with line-by-line level control? This is the model! Built for high-fidelity creative production like gaming, immersive audiobooks, and podcasts.
— Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Want the AI to automatically adjust its tone and pacing on the fly for near real-time voice agents? This is your engine! Built for cost-efficient scale, high-volume dubbing, and bulk audio creation.
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You don't think maybe there's room for both? Idk the family and I have been loving CC by Google Labs, and I like the offloading aspect of a family calendar or random todos we have to do as a family. Like for example, saw this poster for the farmers market, and gave it to CC.
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ever needed to talk something through before you understood it? Notebook can help with the new Live Voice mode, grounded in your sources and benchmaxxed for trust 🗣️
Live Chat is now 100% rolled out to all Ultra users on mobile 📱✨
Have real-time voice conversations with your notebooks across ~100 languages. Powered by our latest audio models, ask questions about your sources and get step-by-step guidance (almost) completely hands-free.
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Simon retweeted
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
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Big updates are rolling out to @Gemini_Notebook to help with teaching and learning. Check out the new features making prep easier for educators and students ⬇️
What feature are you trying first?
We’re rolling out new updates to @Gemini_Notebook for a more personalized learning experience 📚✨
What’s new and coming:
🎙️ Chat with your notes in real-time across nearly 100 languages
📱 Record lectures and capture your thoughts on the go in the mobile app
📝 Build interactive study guides and customizable quizzes
🎬 Create 60-second Short Video Overviews you can share with classmates
Plus: Eligible college students can also claim one year of Google AI, on us.
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Last year, @GoogleLabs launched CC, a new experimental AI personal agent to help you stay organized and get things done.
One of our top requests was for CC to do more to help run a busy home — so today, we’re expanding CC to groups, starting with families and households. It’s built on a new type of Google account for agents, which unlocks new sharing and collaboration capabilities that help you manage tasks, stay organized and start the morning aligned.
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Family CC is a real gem: A group agent that organizes the whole family complete with its own Google Account!
No more fwd'ing emails to each other - have CC organize information from verified senders across your household accounts automatically, assign tasks and ask questions to it in group chat, build a family calendar and task list together and join the smooth running home revolution :)
CC the entire fam 🤝!
Today, we’re announcing the new CC – an AI agent built for families to spend less time on logistics and more time together.
You can now:
👤 Add up to 5 members to your CC agent
☀️ Start mornings aligned with a shared "Your Day Ahead" brief email
🗓️ Autosync schedules & to-dos with a shared Google Calendar and Tasks
💬 Coordinate in Google Chat with CC to offload relevant tasks (ie., crafting weekly meal plans, school supply shopping lists, etc)
📝 Delegate paperwork (ie., permission slips, forms, and more) for CC to complete under your direction
📌 Keep tabs on the details – CC remembers what applies to everyone (ie., family grocery lists, favorite restaurants) versus what applies to one person (ie., dietary restrictions, local timezones)
Ready to keep everybody on the same page? Join the waitlist or upgrade your existing CC (US only, 18+): labs.google/cc
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✅ Record long form audio directly from the new Notebook Mobile Audio Recorder into a Notebook.
Lectures, Meetings, voice notes and journaling, all captured, added and organized, ready for you to unpack, expand on and transform.
We’re rolling out new updates to @Gemini_Notebook for a more personalized learning experience 📚✨
What’s new and coming:
🎙️ Chat with your notes in real-time across nearly 100 languages
📱 Record lectures and capture your thoughts on the go in the mobile app
📝 Build interactive study guides and customizable quizzes
🎬 Create 60-second Short Video Overviews you can share with classmates
Plus: Eligible college students can also claim one year of Google AI, on us.
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✅ Voice Conversations with your Notebook
We’re rolling out new updates to @Gemini_Notebook for a more personalized learning experience 📚✨
What’s new and coming:
🎙️ Chat with your notes in real-time across nearly 100 languages
📱 Record lectures and capture your thoughts on the go in the mobile app
📝 Build interactive study guides and customizable quizzes
🎬 Create 60-second Short Video Overviews you can share with classmates
Plus: Eligible college students can also claim one year of Google AI, on us.
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@Gemini_Notebook #papercuts fix with a twist.
We on the team have been exploring how to auto spec, design, and build small features and papercuts end-to-end agentically.
An example recently rolled to 100% web and mobile: sorting your sources.
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Gemini: cSAT maxxing
Gemini 3.8 flash is a big improvement over 3.7, especially in terms of user satisfaction.
Double-digit lift in the percentage of explicit user praise. Also better at steerability and bash.
It's cool to see that models can still see a raw 20% jump in performance these days.
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#papercut fixed.
If you lost a chat session on @Gemini_Notebook in the past when you accidentally close the laptop or the WiFi glitches out, the chat now reconnects as of today.
Rolled out to 100% of users on the web today (with mobile coming soon).
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Simon retweeted
Love this, and Steven and team are so great! The care the team put into Expert Intelligence is inspiring. Using Books with @Gemini_Notebook is one of my all-time favorite use-cases. They go so well together. 🫶❤️
After working closely with publishers (including @penguindrandom & @BloomsburyPub) and a dream team of leading authors, we're launching a Google-wide program bringing trusted sources (starting with books) to @Gemini_Notebook and more: Expert Intelligence. notebook.google/expert-intel…
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🎉 I am excited to share that "Thinking In Bets" has been selected as one of the first books to go live with Google's new Expert Intelligence feature for trusted sources with @Gemini_Notebook.
Add Thinking in Bets to your trusted sources now: notebook.google.com/notebook…
After working closely with publishers (including @penguindrandom & @BloomsburyPub) and a dream team of leading authors, we're launching a Google-wide program bringing trusted sources (starting with books) to @Gemini_Notebook and more: Expert Intelligence. notebook.google/expert-intel…
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With the Expert Intelligence launch in @Gemini_Notebook today, you have one free ebook from a selection, including Lean Startup by @ericries.
The "Build Products People Actually Want" Notebook by Eric gives you a great feel for how Expert Intelligence can be used, and is turbo charged when you add his book to it. It starts with a note from him, to you, and I wanted to share….
Try it out: goo.gle/expertintelligence
Introducing Expert Intelligence ✨
A cross-@Google initiative that helps you engage with your trusted sources, starting with eligible @GooglePlay ebooks in Gemini Notebook. You can now combine expertise from your favorite authors with other sources and engage with your books in brand new ways!
Try it out here: goo.gle/expertintelligence
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