For the casual Gemini Live user, the conversation experience with the AI tool is often a smooth one. However, if you frequent Gemini Live, you'll know that the AI tool's conversational flow has one major flaw: the tool's tendency to interrupt and susceptibility to being interrupted.

Gemini Live is also rolling out a pair of updates today that should result in “less talking over each other” and “more smooth chatting.”

Sharper function calling: Reliability has been improved when triggering external functions. Gemini can now more accurately identify when to gather real-time information during a conversation. It can then seamlessly include that data in its audio response, without breaking the flow of the conversation.

But there’s one Google Assistant feature that I miss: Continued Conversation, which allowed the Assistant to briefly keep listening after answering a question in case you have follow-ups. If you did have something else to ask, you could do so without having to repeat the “Hey Google” wake word.

In addition to Google Translate for live headphones translation, AI Mode’s Search Live will benefit from these model upgrades.

Gemini’s rollout to the Google Home ecosystem has been kinda slow, but that was to be expected. It’s a major undertaking by Google and it’s not like Google said it was going to be quick. Anyway, the initial wave that hit units has apparently gone well,