After months of waiting, Gemini Live is finally here. You can start using Gemini Live on your Android phone right away, provided you have subscribed to Gemini Advanced. I tested Gemini Live on my OnePlus phone, and it wasn't as revolutionary as we saw in the demos during Google I/O 2024.
Gemini Live vs ChatGPT – Not far behind
First, Gemini Live does not currently support other modalities such as images or real-time camera input, which was demonstrated with Project Astra. Right now it only supports free-flowing audio conversations which works for the most part, but again there are some fundamental issues related to how the feature has been implemented. But we'll get to that later. First, let's review our interactions with Gemini Live.
First things first, Gemini Live supports interrupts and it works pretty well except in some situations where it keeps babbling even though you've interrupted it. You can also talk to Gemini Live in the background, even when your phone is locked.
Furthermore, it can converse in several languages and freely switch from one language to another. I've tried talking to Gemini in English, Hindi and Bengali, and it worked pretty well. You can check out the demo below:
