Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS takes stage directions line by line
The headline features of Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are Voice Design and dual-speaker screenplay control. Google has made it live in Google AI Studio and its APIs, together with Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. The announcement says you can prompt a custom vocal persona, direct the delivery of each line and add vocal bursts, and Google calls these its “most expressive audio generation models yet.” The post doesn’t give prices or a language list, and it doesn’t say how Flash-Lite differs from Flash.
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