Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS clones a voice from 30 seconds, but AI Studio blocks it in the UK

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 01 Oct, 11:41 UTC

Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS model can recreate a voice from a 30-second audio sample, and that voice replication through Google AI Studio "is not available in Illinois, Texas, EEA, UK, Switzerland, and India". That model and a cheaper sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, went generally…