Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversation models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is moving to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company announced Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models.
Released last year and powered by the Haiku model, Claude’s voice mode offered quick responses but wasn’t well suited for complex tasks. The company said the new update will select the last model where voice mode was used for text chat and use its fastest version by default.
Anthropic said the new voice mode will help users have longer conversations, such as providing feedback on communication styles, talking through client pitches, and brainstorming product market research.
Additionally, Claude’s voice mode works with other apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion. This means users can ask to update a meeting slot, draft an email, or create a document in Notion.
In particular, this is a big difference from OpenAI’s voice mode. In OpenAI’s voice mode, the conversational style has been updated, but you still can’t use various tools to get the job done.
Earlier this year, Anthropic added multilingual support to Claude’s voice mode in beta. He said users can now converse in different languages, but they still have to specify the language manually. Currently, Anthropic 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 on all platforms. However, free users are limited to using the Haiku model with only one connected app.
Anthropic hasn’t made any changes to the audio model with this release, nor have they provided any details about the type of audio stack they use. This means that unlike in OpenAI releases, users may not find improvements to conversations, such as improved interruption handling.
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