Google released two text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, through its cloud platform, with Flash TTS able to generate new voices from text descriptions.
Google released two Gemini text-to-speech models, gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts, which include a library of over 2,000 voices and the ability to create a custom voice from a 30-second audio sample.
Why it matters: The models expand Google's text-to-speech options with a large voice library and custom voice creation from a short audio clip.
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