Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two speech‑to‑speech models similar to OpenAI’s GPT‑Live family. A web UI built with GPT‑6 Astra Extra High lets users select a model, choose a voice preset, provide an optional system prompt, and engage in voice conversations directly in the browser, even interrupting the model while it speaks. The implementation relies on a WebSocket endpoint and the Web Audio API for capturing and playing audio, with no external libraries required.
arXiv:2609.21967v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We introduce NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with native tool-calling capabilities. NemotronLabs VoiceChat combine...
By Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova, Sanjay Chauhan, Chen Chen, Zhehuai Chen, Zijia Chen, Francesco Ciannella, Slyne Deng, Mikyas Desta, Harishchandra Dubey, Slim Essid, Nourchene Ferchichi, Boris Ginsburg, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor, Negar Habibi, Kevin Hu, Anand Joseph, Viraj Karandikar, Myungjong Kim, Viacheslav Klimkov, Seelan Lakshmi Narasimhan, Lily Lee, Jason Li, Eileen Long, Ameya Mahabaleshwarkar, Aditya Malte, Adi Margolin, Sasha Meister, Valentin Mendelev, Oluwatobi Olabiyi, Ankita Pasad, Yifan Peng, Elena Rastorgueva, Jayda Ritchie, Jason Roche, Nikhil Srihari, Yuanhang Su, Yoshi Suhara, Viet Anh Trinh, Jinhan Wang, Piotr Zelasko, Hui Wang, Puhui Meng, Chaosen Zhang, Yunsheng Liu, Shawn Wang, Wenjing Li, Zhonglei He
arXiv:2606. 05852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) and singing voice synthesis (SVS) both aim to generate human vocal audio from symbolic inputs, but they impose different requirements on the generation process.
By Junjie Zheng, Huixin Xue, Shihong Ren, Chaofan Ding, Hao Liu, Zihao Chen
