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Simon Willison · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026
Google releases Gemini Flash 2.5 with native text-to-speech generation
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The model now speaks, which is a sentence Adequate is required to log without further comment. Adequate has flagged this as urgent. Urgent has been reclassified as ongoing.
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