multimodal

2026-06-11 google

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Voice Translation Leaves the Demo Reel

Google DeepMind ships streaming speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages, preserving tone, pace and pitch. The signal isn't the demo. It's that it landed in the Gemini Live API.

voice multimodal translation

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2026-06-11 google

Gemma 4 12B Drops the Multimodal Encoder: Google's Bet on a Unified Token Space

Gemma 4 12B feeds vision and audio straight into the language backbone, dropping dedicated encoders. That's an architecture bet, not just another on-device model.

open-models multimodal local-ai

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