GOOGLE'S NEW SPEECH MODELS CAN DESIGN AND DIRECT VOICES

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, letting developers create voices from descriptions and direct pacing, dialect, and delivery line by line. Flash-Lite targets high-volume work such as dubbing and voice agents, while Flash can replicate an authorized voice from a 30-second sample.