The advanced version of Google's Gemini AI assistant, Gemini Live, has started rolling out to Samsung smartphones ahead of the launch of the Pixel 9 series. So, Samsung smartphones and tablets are among the first devices to have access to Gemini Live.
Gemini Live rolling out to Samsung phones ahead of Pixel 9 launch
Yesterday, during the announcement of the Pixel 9 series, Google announced that Gemini Live, the advanced version of its Gemini AI assistant, will be available on Pixel and Samsung smartphones and tablets. Today, Gemini Live has started rolling out to those phones and tablets. It will only be available to those who have subscribed to Gemini's paid version.
You can have continuous conversations with Gemini Live like you can with a normal person. You can interrupt it when it is talking to get more information about something and come back to the topic later. Gemini's extensions (integrations) with other Google services, like Calendar, Drive, Gmail, Keep, YouTube, and YouTube Music, aren't available yet for Gemini Live. Those extensions will be available in the coming months.
When you activate Gemini Live, you see a waveform badge on the bottom right corner with a small sparkle icon. Its introduction explains how to use it. You can hold the conversation or end it using two dedicated buttons.
Gemini Live's UI is pretty clean and takes up the whole screen but shows other apps in the background. There are ten Gemini Live voice options to choose from. You can toggle the ‘Interrupt Live Responses' feature in the app's settings. Gemini Live is only available in English, and support for other languages might be launched in the coming months.
In the past few years, Samsung's in-house AI-powered digital voice assistant, Bixby, hasn't received as many new features as Apple's Siri and Google's Gemini. However, Samsung has announced that Bixby will get LLM-powered upgrades later this year. It will make Bixby understand natural language voice commands in a much better way. It could be released with the One UI 7.0 update.
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