You don't need a Pixel 9 to use Gemini Live. Google's new voice assistant is available on android now with the right subscription.

Alphabet's Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple's App Store that introduced the latest generation of its voice assistant to the popular mobile operating system.

While Google Assistant is going to be around for a while, the future of Google-powered digital assistants now seems to be Gemini. Gemini comes preinstalled if you buy a Google Pixel 9 phone, and you can install the Android app on older Pixels and non-Pixel handsets. There’s also now an app for the iPhone .

New Gemini extensions like Spotify provide enhanced functionality through voice commands. Setup requires granting Google access to Spotify and having a Premium subscription for some features to work.

Google's decision to replace the Google Assistant with Gemini was a controversial onethe AI chatbot was useful for basically everything but what people typically used Assistant for. Now, though, it's slowly getting third-party integrations to restore that functionality,

Spotify is getting support for Google’s Gemini Extensions, which will allow users to search for and play music using the generative AI assistant with natural language requests. The extension was first spotted in the code of the Google app in June,

Google’s Gemini is expanding its music capabilities, introducing a Spotify extension alongside its existing YouTube Music integration.