Live API -- support for mulaw (g711_ulaw) input/output?

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 :grinning_face:

Hi @MB_AST,

Thank you for your valuable suggestions. We appreciate your input and will be sure to share this with the team.

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