Basu Mallick: Transcription was one of Gemini Live API's biggest early use cases
Shrestha Basu Mallick · [AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI · Jun 2, 2025 · at 7:25
Shrestha Basu Mallick (Google DeepMind product lead) discusses early developer adoption patterns and feature releases on the Gemini Live API.
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“Transcription actually, even before we released native audio, now of course you get text and audio interleaved in the output, but transcription used to be one of the biggest use cases we had on the live API.”
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