Hello! I’m currently using gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview to power my website Homeway. I’m using dotnet, so I wrote my own WebSocket impl because I couldn’t find one in the official SDK. I’m going text → text chat completions, with tools, search grounding, etc. It’s all working well**,** and I have b…

Hello, You should still be able to use gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview model, could you please try this and see it works for you?

Hey! Yes, I can still use the model right now. But I got this email on the 10/14/25 saying: What you need to know The following two Gemini API models will be discontinued on December 9, 2025: Gemini 2.0 Flash Live (gemini-2.0-live-001) Gemini 2.5 Flash Live (gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview) …

Same issue here. And also got a similar email. Staying with gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview for now - but December 9 is not too far…

Yeah, it seems like an API problem. The model should be able to accept text in and text out as a valid config, but the API isn’t allowing it right now. But if they asked us to use the model and are deprecating the old one, it should be 100% supported.

I’m having similar issues. Looks like there are issues across the board for the new model. Also, I’m getting terrible results from the new gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 in general: breaks up mid-sentence, gets stuck, speaks nonsense and so on. I’m worried that they’re considering th…

Hello, Apologies for the delay in response. Could you please share your minimum reproducible code? We would like to run and analyze it on our end so we can assist you better.

@Lalit_Kumar Sorry for the delay. Here’s a quick PY single-file demo I made that reproduces the issue. https://homeway.io/gemini-bug-demo.py All you need to do is add an API key in the main() function and then toggle between the working model I’m currently using, but is now deprecated, and the new…

Any updates on this? We are pretty close to the EOL of gemini-live-2.5-flash

Same issue here. I’m using the WebSocket API with my own Kotlin implementation. It worked perfectly with gemini-2.0-live-001 (and still does), but simply switching the model name to gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 doesn’t work when producing text output. I would really appreciate your …

Gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 Text -> Text Only Not Working

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Quinn_Damerell October 20, 2025, 4:41am 12

@Lalit_Kumar do you have any guidance for us?

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Gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 Text -> Text Only Not Working

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