Hi – the gemini-2.0-flash-live “family” of models has been great.
It would be super useful if, in addition to PCM16 i/o, these streaming models supported mulaw / g711_ulaw. Is that possible?
My application pipes data to/from a phone system and currently I have to re-encode to/from PCM16 on the fly. This works but it’s choppy. The OpenAI realtime system supports g711_ulaw i/o and it’s much smoother – but I’d rather stick with gemini 
Hi @MB_AST,
Thank you for your valuable suggestions. We appreciate your input and will be sure to share this with the team.
bump for this, we were just in a process of switching from openAI to gemini, but we got stuck when we found out that g711_ulaw format is not supported. Any news on this?
+1
same issue here… solutions like converting on the fly from ulaw to pcm result most of the time in uneccessary noise
same here… please fix that we need it urgently many startups i know are using it and had same issue
+1
bumping this as well, currently stuck with openai realtime because of this issue