{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-3-5-live-translate/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-3-5-live-translate/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"gemini-3-5-live-translate","name":"Gemini 3.5 Live Translate","org":"Google DeepMind","family":"Gemini 3.5","released":"2026-06-09","status":"preview","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["audio"],"modality_out":["audio","text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":131072,"max_output":65536,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"audio_input":3.5,"audio_output":21,"unit":"per 1M tokens (USD); ~$0.0053/min audio in, ~$0.0315/min audio out","source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"},"price_line":"$3.50 audio in, $21 audio out per 1M tokens","access":[{"provider":"Gemini Live API (WebSocket)","model_id":"gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview","docs":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview"},{"provider":"Google AI Studio","url":"https://aistudio.google.com/live?model=gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview"},{"provider":"Google Translate app / Google Meet","url":"https://translate.google.com"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Continuous speech-to-speech translation preserving the speaker's voice","detail":"Audio-to-audio (no ASR-MT-TTS cascade), generating speech continuously a few seconds behind the speaker while keeping intonation, pacing and pitch.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/"},{"name":"70+ languages, 2,000+ pairs","detail":"Auto-detects 70+ languages and supports 2,000+ language combinations in one meeting; expands Google Meet live translation from 5 to 70+ languages.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/"}],"entry":"2026-06-09-gemini-3-5-live-translate","notes":"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).","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"Sources: [model page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview), [pricing](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing), [launch blog](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/).","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-3-5-live-translate/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":52,"newer":[{"id":"nemotron-3-5-transcribe","name":"NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)","org":"NVIDIA","released":"2026-10-28","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/"},{"id":"hy-simulmt-30b-a3b","name":"Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B","org":"Tencent","released":"2026-10-22","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/"},{"id":"eleven-realtime-v1-max","name":"Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/"},{"id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/"},{"id":"voxtral-small-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Small Transcribe 3","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/"}],"before":{"id":"gemini-3-1-flash-tts","name":"Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (preview)","org":"Google DeepMind","released":"2026-04-15","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-3-1-flash-tts/"},"after":{"id":"gemini-3-5-transcribe","name":"Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (and Transcribe Live)","org":"Google DeepMind","released":"2026-08-26","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-3-5-transcribe/"},"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}