Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.

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Anthropic wants you to talk to Claude, and then watch it act. On Thursday it upgraded Claude’s voice mode to run on its most capable models, Opus and Sonnet, the company announced.

Voice mode launched last year, and until now it ran only on Haiku, Anthropic’s fastest but shallowest model. That was fine for quick questions. But people started using it to work through real problems out loud, and Haiku kept things quick, Anthropic said, “but not always deep”.

The pitch is a smarter sounding board. Opus and Sonnet are built for hard problems. You can talk through a half-formed idea, and Claude will ask follow-up questions and push your thinking rather than just answer.

You switch models mid-conversation, and it uses the fastest version of whichever you pick. It defaults to the last model you used in text. Anthropic pitches it for practising a pitch, weighing two job...

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