Turning Articles into Audio with the Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview: Splitting Long Text, Stitching It Back, and What It Actually Costs
The Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview launched today. Here is a single-narrator pipeline that converts a written article into clean audio, including how to split long text, stitch PCM without ugly seams, keep one voice steady, and estimate the real per-article cost.
Gemini Live API Audio Sounds Sped Up — Fixing the Sample Rate Mismatch
When Gemini Live API responses sound high-pitched and sped up, or come back full of noise, the cause is almost always that the 24kHz output is being played at a different sample rate. Here are the concrete fixes for both the browser and iOS.
Building a Paid Service with the Gemini Multimodal API: Image, Audio, and Video Processing
A complete implementation guide for paid services built on Gemini's multimodal capabilities — covering image analysis, audio transcription, video processing, PDF Q&A, Stripe Metered Billing integration, and production error handling.
Speaker Diarization with Gemini API: Meetings and Podcasts
Use the Gemini API's multimodal audio understanding to label who said what in meeting recordings and podcasts — with a working Python example and prompt design tips.
How to Build an Audio Transcription and Summarization App with Gemini API and Python
Learn how to build an audio transcription and auto-summarization app using Gemini API's multimodal capabilities and Python, with step-by-step code examples.
Gemini API Multimodal Techniques in Practice — Mastering Image, Video, Audio, and PDF Processing
Advanced implementation guide for integrating all 4 modalities (image, video, audio, PDF) with Gemini API. Learn streaming pipelines and Function Calling integration for production-ready multimodal AI systems.
Putting Gemini's TTS to Real Work — Voices, Pacing, and What It Costs to Run
Field notes on adding Gemini's text-to-speech to a solo-developer app: calling it with the google-genai SDK, the raw-PCM-to-WAV gotcha, choosing voices and pacing, and how the costs actually add up.