Anthropic rolls out voice mode for Claude
The voice assistant will be powered by Anthropic's latest Claude Sonnet 4 model.
A promo video clip posted by the company showed that users can ask Claude via voice mode to access apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendars to check what meetings they have set up. It can also search the web and switch between text and voice whenever.
Voice Mode will have five different options for users to choose from.
For free users, Claude just has 20-30 voice messages while paid users have 'significantly higher' usage limits, a blog posted by the company said. Additionally, only subscribers to the paid plan can connect voice mode with Google Workspace for access to Google apps.
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