- Gemini Live is now more conversation and dynamic
- It’s better at translating language and recognizing accents
- Screen sharing and video streaming skills will come soon
If you are a Gemini user, you will have received an e -mail from Google today explaining that the company is rolling an upgrade to Gemini Live to “make your conversations even more dynamic and engaging”.
The new upgrade to Gemini Live (the conversation part of Gemini that you can access on your phone) means that conversations have been improved by one that is not yet named, new AI model. Google said that “with our latest model can live better understand more languages, dialects or accents in a single live chat and help with your translation needs.”
In addition to the improvements of February to Gemini Live, Google also shared its plans for Gemini Live updates in the future. “In the coming months, we will also bring screen sharing and live video streaming features to live.”
These updates suggest a multimodal future for Gemini Live on all devices where it has the ability to be aware of what appears on the screen so you can ask it. Currently, it’s something it can’t do unless you own a Pixel 9 phone that has the ability to “talk live about this”. While you can upload a photo to Standard Gemini and ask chatbot questions about it or ask it to extract text from the image, you can’t do this alive mode yet unless you won a Pixel 9.
Privacy update
Along with this new ability, Google also issued a privacy update in which he said that “as part of giving this improved experience, your audio, video and screens are stored in your gemini apps activity (if it is turned on). Your data in Gemini Apps activity is deleted by
Click your profile picture in the Gemini app to access your Gemini app activity on a mobile device. In a web browser, go to gemini.google.com and click the menu icon and then activity.
What I found
A conversation that is more dynamic is pretty subjective, so I tried a conversation with the new update today, and while it went smoothly, it was hard to find out what the differences were if anyone, from my previous interactions with Gemini Live. Of course, Gemini sounded Perky and eager to please, but it always sounded like that.
The next thing I would try was translating ability. I tried to get gemini live to translate words from Spanish to English, but more often than not continued to tell me that the word I said was the name of a city in California or Michigan, rather than translating it into English ! However, it may have more to do with my Spanish pronunciation than Gemini’s ability to translate from Spanish to English. To be righteous, I managed to make it understand some of my Spanish words and eventually translate them.
So I would say it was hard to find exactly what had changed alive, but when I asked Gemini Live when it was last updated, it said February 2025, so I assume it has been updated with the new Abilities. Tell me that in the comments if you noticed your Gemini chatter feels more vividly compared to before.
Gemini Live is currently free for all Android users, but is also available in the Gemini app for iPhone users subscribed to Gemini Advanced.
