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Ron asked: “I’m wondering if there’s any way to have Google Assistant – or I guess now it’s called Gemini – to keep listening to me until I’m done with my question instead of cutting me off after three or four words and giving me an answer that has nothing to do with what I wanted to ask. I’m doing this on my PC.”
Ron, if you use Chrome there is a feature that may help you called Go Live.
Go Live with Gemini is supposed to emulate a regular conversation where you can ask the browser questions about what youre seeing as well as ask it for help in other areas.
It does mean that it will be constantly listening to what you say, but you will be able to speak more naturally and interrupt it mid-sentence when it starts talking before it should.
If thats too intrusive and you have concerns about having it listen to you at all times, your options diminish.
At that point all you can really do is try to speak clearly without big gaps where it can interject but your mileage will vary.
If you do want to use Go Live, the steps outlined by Google to enable it are:
1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top of your browser, click Gemini in Chrome .
3. In the text box, click Go Live .
After that you should be able to follow the instructions on screen and begin talking to Gemini as if you were having a conversation with it.
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