Anthropic has released an update to its Claude voice mode, expanding the available models to include Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. The update aims to improve the voice mode's ability to handle complex tasks, building on the previous version that used the Haiku model. According to the company, the new voice mode selects the last model users employed in text chat and defaults to its fastest version. This change is intended to support longer conversations and more advanced use cases, such as providing feedback on communication style, discussing client pitches, and brainstorming product market research. The update also allows integration with external apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion, enabling users to perform tasks such as updating meeting slots or drafting emails.
The new voice mode is available to all users in beta across platforms, though free users are limited to the Haiku model with only one connected app. Anthropic did not make changes to the voice model itself in this release and has not detailed the voice stack it uses. This means users may not experience conversational improvements like better interruption handling, unlike OpenAI’s recent release. The update also includes multilingual support, allowing users to communicate in various languages, though they must manually specify the language. Supported languages include English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish (Latin America/Spain).
Anthropic said the new voice mode can help users with longer conversations, including providing feedback on their communication style, talking through a pitch to a client, and brainstorming product market research. The company also noted that the voice mode can tap into other apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion, allowing users to ask it to update a meeting slot, draft an email, or create a document in Notion. This is a notable difference from OpenAI’s voice mode, which updated its conversational style but still isn’t able to use different tools to get work done.
Source: techcrunch
