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Google moved its November 17 Gemini voice-model shutdowns: three TTS previews now go December 18, one Live preview March 31, and one has no date
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Google's Gemini API deprecations page no longer shuts down five preview voice models on November 17, 2026. When ArtificialWatch read the page on November 14, three text-to-speech previews had a shutdown date of December 18, 2026, the December 2025 native-audio Live preview had March 31, 2027, and gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview had no shutdown date at all. On November 3 the same page listed all five for November 17.
THE NEW DATES
- December 18, 2026, at the earliest: gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts and gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview. Google's replacement for each is gemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts.
- March 31, 2027, at the earliest: gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025. Google's replacement is gemini-3.8-live.
- No shutdown date announced: gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview. Google still names gemini-3.8-live as its replacement.
WHAT THE DATES MEAN
Google says the dates in its table "indicate the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired" and that it will communicate the exact date with advance notice, so December 18 is the first day the three TTS previews can stop, not a promise that they will. Once a model is shut down, the page says, "the endpoint is no longer available." None of the five rows says the endpoint will route to a newer model, unlike gemini-3.7-flash on the same page, whose endpoint "automatically routes API requests to gemini-3.8-flash".
WHAT IS SOURCED
Google's Gemini API deprecations page, read directly on November 14 and 15, and the same table at aistudio.google.com/docs/deprecations, which gives the same dates. Some third-party shutdown trackers and migration guides still gave November 17 on November 14.
WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW
Google's page does not say when or why the dates moved, and its release notes carry no entry for the change.
ArtificialWatch's model retirement calendar has the new dates, with a calendar feed: https://artificialwatch.com/model-retirements/google
Source: Google's Gemini API deprecations page (read directly, November 14 and 15, 2026) ↗ · the bench index
Data: AI model retirement calendar
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