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Gemini Live is built for back-and-forth conversation. You can interrupt the assistant mid-answer and keep going with follow-up questions. That kind of living-room interaction puts more pressure on the microphones, especially when the speaker has to hear you over its own audio. The Onn listing calls out a far-field microphone array built for stable voice interaction. It also addresses the privacy problem. Always-listening conversational models in the living room deserve more than a software toggle buried in an app. Walmart’s device includes a physical microphone kill switch that cuts the microp