Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority
TL;DR
- An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Gemini Live could get a mute button.
- This would allow you to mute your voice input while still receiving Gemini Live output, which would be handy in noisy environments.
- The mute button will likely replace the existing pause/resume button.
Gemini Live is a handy way to talk to the Gemini chatbot in a more natural, conversational way. The feature has since received a variety of additions and improvements. Now, it turns out that Google is adding a highly requested option to Gemini Live.
We dug into the latest version of the Google app (version 16.42.61.sa.arm64) and discovered that Google was working on the option to mute and unmute Gemini Live during a conversation. We also managed to enable this button, which appears in both the Google app and in the Gemini Live notification. Check it out in the screenshots below.