Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Public preview in the Live API/AI Studio from 2026-06-09; Meet private preview; Google Translate on Android/iOS (incl. headphone 'listening mode'). Outputs SynthID-watermarked. No function calling, thinking or caching. Model card (read 2026-09-29): https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-5-audio/ - covers Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, Transcribe and Transcribe Live (card dated 2026-08-26); no numeric evals in the card itself; knowledge cutoff January 2025; did not reach any Tracked or Critical Capability Levels under the Frontier Safety Framework. Card-listed Live Translate limitations: inconsistent voices, language detection struggles with non-native accents and rapid switching, imperfect background-noise handling, occasional audio artifacts. OpenAI's rival gpt-realtime-translate launched a month earlier (2026-05-07).
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Input
- audio
- Output
- audio, text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- audio input: $3.5 · audio output: $21 (per 1M tokens (USD); ~$0.0053/min audio in, ~$0.0315/min audio out) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini Live API (WebSocket) | gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview | — | docs |
| Google AI Studio | — | aistudio.google.com/live?model=gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview | — |
| Google Translate app / Google Meet | — | translate.google.com | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Continuous speech-to-speech translation preserving the speaker's voice: Audio-to-audio (no ASR-MT-TTS cascade), generating speech continuously a few seconds behind the speaker while keeping intonation, pacing and pitch. source
- 70+ languages, 2,000+ pairs: Auto-detects 70+ languages and supports 2,000+ language combinations in one meeting; expands Google Meet live translation from 5 to 70+ languages. source
Sources: model page, pricing, launch blog.
Timeline entry
- Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, voice-preserving real-time speech translation in 70+ languages ★★★
On 2026-06-09 Google released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio-to-audio model that translates speech continuously a few seconds behind the speaker while preserving their intonation, pacing and pitch. It auto-detects 70+ languages, ships in the Gemini Live API (preview), Google Translate on…
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