Gemini on your Google Home talking to itself? A fix is on the way

Earlier this year, some Android Auto users watched Gemini Live hear its own voice and spiral into a conversation with itself. In-car audio setups emerged as a possible culprit, but similar behavior is now surfacing on some Google Home devices. The good news? Google has now acknowledged the bug and says improvements are rolling out.

The issue surfaced on Reddit after a Google Home user said Gemini Live had become unusable. Responding last Friday, the official Google Nest Community account confirmed that Live Mode was interrupting itself on some devices and said improvements were rolling out.

Thank you for flagging this and for the discussion in the comments. We’ve started rolling out improvements that will address issues where Live Mode on some devices was interrupting itself. We’ll circle back once the rollout is complete.

The accompanying video shows Gemini Live running on a Nest Hub. After inviting the user to chat, Gemini appears to pick up its own response as new input. It then answers itself, listens again, and continues the exchange without anyone speaking. The user said the loop runs for about a minute before Gemini crashes.

Other comments indicate the problem goes beyond a single Nest Hub. One user said it happens occasionally, while another described Gemini hearing its spoken timer confirmation and setting the same timer again. Someone else reported similar behavior in the Gemini phone app.

The bug fix arrives as Gemini Live expands to more of Google’s aging smart home lineup, allowing Google Home Premium subscribers to hold free-flowing conversations on hardware released years ago.

That expansion should be a win. Gemini has shown that it can make older Nest devices genuinely useful again, particularly for answering questions, managing timers, showing camera feeds, and controlling smart-home equipment. A bug that turns those conversations into an AI monologue risks undercutting one of the upgrade’s biggest strengths.

This bug closely resembles the Android Auto problem reported earlier this year. In that case, Gemini would begin answering, switch back to listening mid-sentence, and respond to the audio it had just produced. Bluetooth latency was suggested as a possible explanation, but similar behavior on home devices casts doubt on that theory.

Google has not revealed the cause, listed the affected devices, or said when the rollout will finish. But it plans to provide another update once the improvements have reached everyone.