Gemma 4 Multimodal Capabilities and Limitations

Audio/video support is E2B/E4B only, with 30s audio and 60s video limits. Larger models handle text and image only. Multimodal content should precede text in prompts.

Gemma 4's audio and video support is limited to the E2B and E4B variants only. The larger 26B MoE and 31B Dense models support text and image only. Audio constraints: Maximum 30 seconds per clip. Use voice activity detection (VAD) to chunk longer audio. No speaker diarization or word-level timestamps are available. Video constraints: Maximum 60 seconds, processed at 1 frame per second (FPS). For higher frame rates, extract frames manually and feed them as individual images. Best practice: Always place multimodal content (images, audio, video) BEFORE text in the prompt for optimal results.

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