Weeks after OpenAI released a new suite of conversation models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, competitor Anthropic is moving to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company said Thursday that users can choose from Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models.
Claude’s voice mode, released last year and based on the Haiku model, provided quick responses but wasn’t suitable for complex tasks. The company said in the new update that Voice Mode will pick the last model people used in text chats and use the fastest version by default.
Anthropic said the new voice mode can help with longer conversations, such as providing feedback on a user’s communication style, talking to a client, or brainstorming product market research.
Plus, Claude’s voice mode can leverage other apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion. This means users can ask Notion to update meeting times, draft emails, or create documents.
In particular, this is a big difference from OpenAI’s voice mode, which updates the conversation style but still doesn’t allow you to use other tools to get the job done.
Earlier this year, Anthropic added multilingual support to Claude’s voice mode in beta. Now, users can speak in multiple languages, but they say they have to manually specify the language. Anthropic currently supports English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Latin America/Spain).
The new voice mode is available to all users in beta across platforms. However, free users are limited to using the Haiku model with only one connected app.
Anthropic hasn’t changed its voice model in this release and hasn’t detailed what kind of voice stack it uses. This means that, unlike OpenAI releases, users may not find interactive improvements such as better interruption handling.
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