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Use this skill when building real-time, bidirectional streaming applications with the Gemini Live API, or migrating legacy Live models (2.0/2.5/3.1) to Gemini 3.8 Live. Covers WebSocket-based audio/video/text streaming, voice activity detection (VAD), background reasoning (extended thinking), asynchronous function calling, session management, ephemeral tokens, live transcription, and live translation. SDKs covered - google-genai (Python), @google/genai (JavaScript/TypeScript).

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# Gemini Live API Development Skill

## Overview

The Live API enables **low-latency, real-time voice and video interactions** with Gemini over WebSockets. It processes continuous streams of audio, video, or text to deliver immediate, human-like spoken responses and background reasoning.

Key capabilities:
- **Bidirectional audio streaming** — real-time mic-to-speaker conversations
- **Background reasoning (extended thinking)** — multi-step background reasoning with spoken conversational fillers
- **Live streaming transcription** — real-time speech-to-text with interim and finalized streams
- **Video streaming** — send camera/screen frames alongside audio
- **Text input/output** — send and receive text within a live session
- **Audio transcriptions** — get text transcripts of both input and output audio
- **Voice Activity Detection (VAD)** — automatic server VAD, client-side Hybrid VAD, and manual Push-to-Talk
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