Gemini Live conversations now let you choose the microphone and audio output device.
- Select a specific microphone or speaker, or keep the system default. Selections are remembered on this device.
- Use Allow microphone and refresh devices to grant access and refresh device names. This briefly opens the microphone locally without sending audio to Google.
- Stop the conversation before changing devices; the transcript is retained.
- Show actionable errors for denied microphone access and unavailable devices. A missing selected microphone never silently falls back to another input.
- Explain when audio output selection is unavailable and direct users to system sound settings.
- Improve microphone and playback cleanup when connection setup fails, with regression tests.
Full Changelog: 1.26.0...1.26.1