Live API

import asyncio
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY")
model = "gemini-2.0-flash-live-001"

config = {"response_modalities": ["TEXT"]}

async def main():
    async with client.aio.live.connect(model=model, config=config) as session:
        while True:
            message = input("User> ")
            if message.lower() == "exit":
                break
            await session.send_client_content(
                turns={"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": message}]}, turn_complete=True
            )

            async for response in session.receive():
                if response.text is not None:
                    print(response.text, end="")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

import asyncio
import wave
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY")
model = "gemini-2.0-flash-live-001"

config = {"response_modalities": ["AUDIO"]}

async def main():
    async with client.aio.live.connect(model=model, config=config) as session:
        wf = wave.open("audio.wav", "wb")
        wf.setnchannels(1)
        wf.setsampwidth(2)
        wf.setframerate(24000)

        message = "Hello? Gemini are you there?"
        await session.send_client_content(
            turns={"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": message}]}, turn_complete=True
        )

        async for idx,response in async_enumerate(session.receive()):
            if response.data is not None:
                wf.writeframes(response.data)

            # Un-comment this code to print audio data info
            # if response.server_content.model_turn is not None:
            #      print(response.server_content.model_turn.parts[0].inline_data.mime_type)

        wf.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

from google.genai import types

config = {
    "system_instruction": types.Content(
        parts=[
            types.Part(
                text="You are a helpful assistant and answer in a friendly tone."
            )
        ]
    ),
    "response_modalities": ["TEXT"],
}

from google.genai import types

config = types.LiveConnectConfig(
    response_modalities=["AUDIO"],
    speech_config=types.SpeechConfig(
        language_code="de-DE",
    )
)

config = types.LiveConnectConfig(
    response_modalities=["TEXT"],
    tools=[set_light_values]
)

async with client.aio.live.connect(model=model, config=config) as session:
    await session.send_client_content(
        turns={
            "role": "user",
            "parts": [{"text": "Turn the lights down to a romantic level"}],
        },
        turn_complete=True,
    )

    async for response in session.receive():
        print(response.tool_call)

async for response in session.receive():
    if response.server_content.interrupted is True:
        # The generation was interrupted

# example audio file to try:
# URL = "https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/data/hello_are_you_there.pcm"
# !wget -q $URL -O sample.pcm
import asyncio
from pathlib import Path
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY")
model = "gemini-2.0-flash-live-001"

config = {"response_modalities": ["TEXT"]}

async def main():
    async with client.aio.live.connect(model=model, config=config) as session:
        audio_bytes = Path("sample.pcm").read_bytes()

        await session.send_realtime_input(
            audio=types.Blob(data=audio_bytes, mime_type="audio/pcm;rate=16000")
        )

        # if stream gets paused, send:
        # await session.send_realtime_input(audio_stream_end=True)

        async for response in session.receive():
            if response.text is not None:
                print(response.text)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

config = {
    "response_modalities": ["TEXT"],
    "realtime_input_config": {"automatic_activity_detection": {"disabled": True}},
}

async with client.aio.live.connect(model=model, config=config) as session:
    # ...
    await session.send_realtime_input(activity_start=types.ActivityStart)
    await session.send_realtime_input(
        audio=types.Blob(data=audio_bytes, mime_type="audio/pcm;rate=16000")
    )
    await session.send_realtime_input(activity_end=types.ActivityEnd)
    # ...

async for message in session.receive():
    # The server will periodically send messages that include UsageMetadata.
    if message.usage_metadata:
        usage = message.usage_metadata
        print(
            f"Used {usage.total_token_count} tokens in total. Response token breakdown:"
        )
        for detail in usage.response_tokens_details:
            match detail:
                case types.ModalityTokenCount(modality=modality, token_count=count):
                    print(f"{modality}: {count}")

from google.genai import types

config = types.LiveConnectConfig(
    response_modalities=["AUDIO"],
    context_window_compression=(
        # Configures compression with default parameters.
        types.ContextWindowCompressionConfig(
            sliding_window=types.SlidingWindow(),
        )
    ),
)

import asyncio
from google import genai
from google.genai import types

client = genai.Client(api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY")
model = "gemini-2.0-flash-live-001"

async def main():
    print(f"Connecting to the service with handle {previous_session_handle}...")
    async with client.aio.live.connect(
        model=model,
        config=types.LiveConnectConfig(
            response_modalities=["AUDIO"],
            session_resumption=types.SessionResumptionConfig(
                # The handle of the session to resume is passed here,
                # or else None to start a new session.
                handle=previous_session_handle
            ),
        ),
    ) as session:
        while True:
            await session.send_client_content(
                turns=types.Content(
                    role="user", parts=[types.Part(text="Hello world!")]
                )
            )
            async for message in session.receive():
                # Periodically, the server will send update messages that may
                # contain a handle for the current state of the session.
                if message.session_resumption_update:
                    update = message.session_resumption_update
                    if update.resumable and update.new_handle:
                        # The handle should be retained and linked to the session.
                        return update.new_handle

                # For the purposes of this example, placeholder input is continually fed
                # to the model. In non-sample code, the model inputs would come from
                # the user.
                if message.server_content and message.server_content.turn_complete:
                    break

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

async for response in session.receive():
    if response.go_away is not None:
        # The connection will soon be terminated
        print(response.go_away.time_left)

async for response in session.receive():
    if response.server_content.generation_complete is True:
        # The generation is complete

from google.genai import types

config = types.LiveConnectConfig(
    response_modalities=["AUDIO"],
    media_resolution=types.MediaResolution.MEDIA_RESOLUTION_LOW,
)