Google’s commitment to artificial intelligence hasn’t stopped since the company realized OpenAI beat it with ChatGPT. The launch of Gemini and new language models managed to reduce and even eliminate the advantage that ChatGPT had, but the most interesting confrontation is perhaps not in the “chatbot”, but in voice conversations .
As GPT-4o demonstrated, voice conversations are the next frontier in generative AI; the possibility of being able to speak with our cell phone as if it were a person, with all that that implies. It’s the next step up from personal assistants like Google Assistant, which were already capable of responding to our voice but were limited in the number of things they could do; and they certainly couldn’t carry on the conversation like today’s models can.
Gemini Live is one of these models, although unfortunately, until now, Spanish users have not been able to check it directly, since it was only available in English. That changes starting today, as Google announced, with support for up to 40 additional languages, who understands Spanish.
In fact, Spanish will be one of the first languages supported by Gemini Live, alongside French, German, Portuguese and Hindi; Over the next few days, Gemini app users will begin to have access to Gemini Live for AI voice chats. The remaining dozens of languages will have to wait several weeks to learn more. Although initially Gemini Live was reserved for Google One AI Premium subscriber users, later Google made it free for all users.
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An interesting detail is that the AI will be able to switch between two languages naturally during the conversation; That is, if we speak two languages interchangeably, such as English and Spanish, we can speak with Gemini Live with both and it will understand us. Of course, for this we will first have to enter the Gemini configuration and add the second language that we want to use.
Google also confirmed that it is continuing its work to integrate Gemini with the rest of the applications, which should increase the possibilities of AI. Thanks to the extensions, Gemini is already able to obtain our data from applications like Gmail, Maps or YouTube, but in the coming weeks it will also be able to connect to Calendar, Tasks and Keep. This will allow, for example, to ask the AI to give us a summary of the day’s events, or to update our shopping list, once we have given it permission to access our data.
