**[Gemini 3.8 Live Released, Scores 82.6 to Top the Voice Rankings]** Beating AI News: Google has released two new real-time voice models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. Extended Thinking is designed to handle complex tasks, enabling reasoning while speaking and calling tools in the background without pausing the conversation to wait for results. In the Speech-to-Speech Quality Index by Artificial Analysis, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking scored 82.6, surpassing GPT-Live-1 + Astra's 81.5 and Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0's 81.3, claiming the top spot. It also achieved 68.6% in the τ-Voice voice agent task. The standard version, Gemini 3.8 Live, focuses more on cost-effective real-time interaction, supporting automatic switching between 97 languages, real-time visual input, and asynchronous tool calls. Both models are now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, with audio input priced at $0.005 per minute and output at $0.018 per minute.