Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.
Leland Rechis
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
Built for deep creative direction and character design. Create entirely new voices from scratch using natural language prompts to bring characters to life across gaming, immersive audiobooks, podcasts, and interactive media. Direct every performance line by line with granular control over acting cues, pacing, dialect shifts, and backchanneling.
Specs
Model
- Family
- Gemini
- Variant
- 3.8 Flash TTS
- Weights
- Proprietary
Modalities
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Audio
Dates
- Announced
- 23 Sept 2026
- Released
- 23 Sept 2026
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