According to Bloomberg, AI startup Anthropic is about to release a voice mode for Claude. Currently, it’s only possible to communicate with the Claude AI assistant via text, and adding voice mode would bring it up to parity with other advanced AIs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Sesame.
Claude’s voice mode will initially only be available in English, with three different voice modes named “Airy,” “Mellow,” and “Buttery.” According to Bloomberg, Claude’s voice mode could be released as early as April, but it will initially be rolled out to a limited number of users.
Anthropic hasn’t yet commented on Claude’s voice mode.
With LLMs, voice mode is more than just speaking to an AI and having them understand you—it involves the AI responding to you with its own voice, holding a natural-sounding conversation with you as you dialogue back and forth. Think Alexa, but way more advanced.
Last month, ChatGPT received an update that drastically improved its voice mode, making it interrupt you less often for conversations that flow better and feel more human. Sesame, on the other hand, sounds so life-like that it scared us when we spoke with it.
