Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, its "most expressive audio generation models yet", with support for more than 100 languages
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Highly expressive TTS in 100+ languages makes synthetic voice a default option for global products, not a niche feature. Product teams should assume they can localize audio at near-zero marginal cost — and that they’ll need guardrails to prevent misuse of those same capabilities.
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