Google has finally launched Gemini Live, its conversational AI, months after teasing it at I/O 2024. Gemini Live is not your traditional voice assistant or text-to-speech AI chatbot, but a free-flowing conversational AI that can interrupted and paused, then you can continue your conversation later. It is a direct competitor to OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode which is currently only being rolled out to a small number of alpha users.
I chatted with Google's Gemini Live AI Voice Chat
But Google, on the other hand, has an expanded OpenAI and launched Gemini Live for all advanced users. Basically, you can subscribe to Gemini Advanced which costs $20 per month to get access to Gemini Live right away. That said, keep in mind that Gemini Live is currently only available on Android phones and that's only in English. Google says Gemini Live is coming to iOS and more languages in the coming weeks.
Here's how to access Gemini Live on Android phones directly.
Keep in mind that for some users, Gemini Live may not be live yet as Google is rolling out the feature slowly. Also, the ability to use the camera during Gemini Live conversations is not here yet. I guess that will come in the future.
