Gemini mini live voice agent goes silent repeatedly

Hello,

In my web-app I’m using gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 for live conversation. I’m seeing this issue where the model goes silent for more than 30s sometimes. Mostly it is able to resume on its own.

This is not consistent - happens once in a while. Has anyone experienced this? Any troubleshooting tips?

Thanks

@pulkit ,

Welcome to the forum , gemini uses “Automatic VAD(Voice activity detection)” to keep the conversation which stops the audio stream when there is a voice/sound input so that the conversations are natural and so that the model doesn’t go on talking while the user wants to interrupt the flow.

  1. please see if this can be replicated in a silent environemnt or make sure there is no voice or talk near by.
  2. check if this can be replicated by deactivating Automatic VAD (check below for details )
    Live API capabilities guide  |  Gemini API  |  Google AI for Developers