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Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

DeepMind has introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a new tool that offers more intelligent speech-to-text transcription. The update promises improved accuracy and smarter handling of spoken content, enhancing the overall transcription experience.

Simon Willison
Sep 23

Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Google has launched two new Gemini text‑to‑speech models—gemini‑3.8‑flash‑tts and gemini‑3.8‑flash‑lite‑tts—offering a library of over 2,000 voices and the option to create a custom voice from a 30‑second audio sample. The author built a playground interface that lets users define multi‑character conversations with distinct voices and styles, and demonstrated it with a scripted dialogue between two pelicans. Generating 1 minute 18 seconds of audio with the Flash model took about 20 seconds and cost 2.74 cents.