Improved Gemini audio models for powerful voice interactions
Dec 12, 2025Bibo Xu, Tara Sainath

Summary
This post details updates to Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio, enhancing its performance for live voice agents with improved function calling (71.5% on ComplexFuncBench Audio), instruction following (90% adherence), and conversational flow. It also introduces live speech-to-speech translation capabilities supporting over 70 languages, preserving speech nuances and handling multilingual input and noise.