Gemini Live is available to all Android phones – for free. Here’s why you should try it

In September, Google introduced that every one English-speaking Gemini mobile app customers on Android would get entry to Gemini Live, permitting them to have free-flowing conversations with the assistant at any time when they’d like. By the top of the month, the Gemini Reside rollout was full, and it is at the moment out there free of charge on all Android telephones. 

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Google first unveiled Gemini Reside, a conversational AI-powered assistant that may be interrupted, have multi-turn conversations, and revisit conversations later, in Could. Since its launch, Gemini Reside was solely out there to Gemini Superior customers, requiring a $20 month-to-month membership to entry. Now, free customers have been looped in, too. 

The best way to entry Gemini Reside

On September 30, Google introduced that Reside is now out there for all Gemini customers in English on the Android app, that means customers will now not must subscribe to the Gemini One AI Premium plan to entry it, and downloading the Gemini app from the Google Play Retailer is free. There is no such thing as a Gemini app for iOS, so these customers won’t be able to take part within the expertise.

That is notably noteworthy as a result of ChatGPT’s equal function, the brand new Voice Mode, is at the moment solely rolling out to paid subscribers, together with ChatGPT Plus users, who pay a $20 month-to-month subscription. 

Finally, each Gemini Reside and OpenAI’s Voice Mode will be capable of use the telephone’s digital camera to offer the voice assistant context of the consumer’s environment to tell responses. Nonetheless, neither firm has given a transparent date for when the visible part of the function will launch. 

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To entry Gemini Reside, be sure your Gemini app is up to date after which open it such as you repeatedly would. In case you see the waveform icon on the backside left of your app display, pictured under, you’ve got Gemini Reside entry. When you click on on it, you will notice a walkthrough of how you can use the function. In case you do not see it, strive updating your Gemini app.

Google has additionally up to date Gemini Reside to help extra languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Hindi. To alter the language you discuss to Gemini in, click on Settings > Google Assistant > Languages.

What to make use of Gemini Reside for

So what are you able to even use Gemini Reside for? Gemini Reside is helpful in any state of affairs the place you sometimes use a typical voice assistant with the added bonus of it higher understanding your query, offering human-like solutions, and higher supporting your curiosity by answering follow-ups with out dropping the context of the dialog.

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It could actually additionally do issues {that a} common voice assistant couldn’t, comparable to having extra summary conversations with you about emotions, life, and concepts and even giving recommendation. It might sound foolish, however when you converse to it, you’ll perceive why individuals use it for these duties, because it really mimics human dialog.  

What iOS customers ought to know

If you’re an Apple consumer experiencing a little bit of FOMO, no worries. In Could, Apple additionally unveiled Apple Intelligence, its assortment of AI options that shall be infused into the Apple gadget expertise, and one of many new options is a smarter Siri. 

Apple Intelligence shall be a part of iOS 18.1, which is coming later this month. Nonetheless, solely customers with the A17 chip and higher, found in the iPhone 15 Pro and all succeeding models, can expertise Apple Intelligence in its entirety. A number of the new Apple Intelligence options are anticipated to roll out in late October, with others will comply with at a later date, probably early subsequent yr. 

Apple customers may also use Copilot Voice, Microsoft’s tackle an AI-powered voice assistant out there to all customers free of charge. The conversational capabilities are simply as spectacular and accessible inside the Copilot app on iOS and Android now.