Release announced
Released on Sep 22, 2026
Google announced this model on 2026-09-22.
- Hosting route
- First-party API
- Affected scope
- Not stated in the notice
- Announced
- Sep 22, 2026
- First seen by ModelClock
- Oct 4, 2026
What the provider published
ai.google.dev ↗September 22, 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA) : Released our next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) audio models and the Gemini API Voices endpoint (
/v1beta/voices):Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (
gemini-3.8-flash-tts) : Flagship creative TTS model engineered for studio-grade voice fidelity, nuanced acting, regional dialects, and long-form multi-turn stability.Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (
gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts) : Fast, cost-efficient TTS model built to replacegemini-3.1-flash-tts-previewfor high-throughput production and real-time voice agent cascades.
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