Google Gemini Multimodal Capabilities: Text, Images, Audio, And Video Support

Google Gemini stands out for its flexible multimodal capabilities, enabling users to combine text, images, audio, and video inputs for a wide range of advanced workflows. The scope and power of Gemini’s multimodal features depend on the specific model variant and integration context, supporting everything from conversational search to in-depth media analysis.

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Gemini Models Support Mixed Inputs Across Text, Images, Audio, And Video.

Gemini’s API and platform experiences are designed for seamless multimodal prompting, allowing users to blend different types of inputs in a single request. Text remains the foundation for most workflows, but image, audio, and video inputs are directly supported in many Gemini model variants.

Visual question answering, captioning, and content analysis are enabled through image input support. Audio files can be transcribed, summarized, or analyzed for speaker identity, language, and emotion. Video input unlocks workflows such as content segmentation, description, and extracting key moments—often in combination with audio tracks.

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Gemini Multimodal Input Support

Input Modality	Supported Functions	Typical Output
Text	Q&A, writing, summarization, reasoning, coding	Text
Images	Captioning, visual Q&A, classification	Text
Audio	Transcription, translation, summarization, diarization, emotion detection	Text
Video	Segment analysis, scene description, audio-visual extraction, timestamped answers	Text

Each modality broadens Gemini’s real-world utility.

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Output Is Typically Text, But Advanced Modes Enable Multimodal Generation.

Most Gemini multimodal models accept a mix of text, image, audio, and video inputs, but return text output as the standard result. This includes answering questions, summarizing content, and providing detailed descriptions of media files.

Emerging product experiences and certain Gemini 2.5 variants expand beyond text, adding capabilities for native audio dialog or audio generation. These features are context-dependent and available in selected Google product surfaces or through API opt-in.

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Gemini Output Modality And Generation

Mode	Standard Output	Special Cases
Text generation	Yes	Most common
Audio generation	Supported in select versions	Dialog and audio synthesis (in development)
Multimodal analysis	Text output from mixed inputs	Visual/audio answers

Advanced generation modes are continuously evolving.

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Product Surface And Model Selection Dictate Available Multimodal Features.

Not all Gemini models are multimodal; support varies by API endpoint, model version, and Google product. AI Studio acts as a unified playground, letting users experiment with text, image, audio, and video prompts across supported models.

On Vertex AI, documentation distinguishes between general-purpose text-only models and multimodal Gemini variants. For example, Gemini Flash and Gemini Pro Vision explicitly list video, image, audio, and text as supported input types, while other models focus solely on text.

Model documentation specifies input size, format, and any modality-specific constraints for optimal use.

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Gemini Multimodal Feature Availability By Surface

Surface	Modality Support	User Experience
Gemini API	Text, images, audio, video (model-specific)	Developer integration, mixed inputs
AI Studio	All modalities (where supported)	Prompt experimentation UI
Vertex AI	Multimodal for select models	Enterprise and research workflows

Checking model-level support ensures full multimodal capability.

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Gemini Enables Complex, Mixed-Media Workflows For Analysis, Summarization, And Creative Generation.

Gemini’s multimodal design empowers users to analyze, summarize, and query diverse media types—whether for research, education, business, or creative tasks. By supporting text, image, audio, and video inputs, Gemini unlocks new possibilities for automation, insight extraction, and user engagement across domains.

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