# Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

The feature combines real-time video generation and speech in Gemini Enterprise, providing synchronized lip-syncing and expressions across 97 languages.

- Supports asynchronous tool calling, fetching data in the background while maintaining continuous dialogue
- Adapts expressions and lip-syncing across 97 languages without visual drift
- Generates custom responsive avatars from a single reference image via enterprise allowlisting
- Watermarks all audio and video output using SynthID

## Why it matters

Enterprise developers can now deploy interactive, real-time video agents that perform background tasks without interrupting spoken conversations.

## Sources

- [Google DeepMind: Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar](https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-38-live-with-live-avatar)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-24. https://dstilled.ai/story/5a305e44-441b-422f-88ae-1a7edea6c56c