Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

Anthropic started rolling out a “speech mode” for his Claude Chatbot apps.

With speech mode (for the time being in beta), users of Claude Mobile app can “have complete conversations with Claude” and, according to Anthropic’s, will arrive in English in the coming weeks, in English Official account on X And Updated documentation On the website of the company.

At least A user on X Reports that gained access to speech mode at the end of Tuesday. By default it is driven by the Claude Sonnet 4 -model from Anthropic.

“Voice mode … allows you to talk to Claude and hear reactions by voice, making it easier to use Claude if your hands are busy, but your mind is not,” reads one Support page. “Voice mode transforms how you deal with Claude by displaying the key points on the screen while Claude speaks [and] So that you can talk to Claude and hear Claude’s voting reactions. “

A number of AI companies, including OpenAI, offer voice scater experiences for their respective chatbots. For example, Google has Gemini Live, while Xai has speech mode for grock. Each allows users to communicate with bots by speaking instead of typing, making conversations feel more natural and intuitive.

With the taste of Anthropic’s speech mode, users can talk about things such as documents and images and choose from five different speech options. Users can also switch between text and speech and view a transcript and summarizing subsequent conversations.

The power has certain limits. Speech conversations count for regular usage caps-anthropic says that 20-30 conversations can expect the most free users. In addition, only paid claude subscribers can benefit from a Google workspace -connector with which the speech mode has access to Google Agenda -appointments and Gmail -e -Mails (the integration of Google Documents is exclusive for Claude Enterprise plans).

Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger confirmed that the company worked for speech opportunities for Claude in an interview with The Financial Times at the beginning of March. According to the report, Anthropic held conversations with Amazon, the most important investor and partner of the company, and speech -oriented AI Startup Elevenlabs, to possibly encourage future voting functions for Claude.

It is unclear which of those partnerships, if present, flourished.