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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

TechCrunch AI Ivan Mehta 23 July 2026, 19:00 ● Covered by 2 sources

Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to let users choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models and integrated third-party apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion for task completion. The voice mode now defaults to the fastest version of whichever text model a user last selected, enabling more complex conversations than the previous Haiku-only setup. This gives Claude's voice mode a feature advantage over OpenAI's comparable offering, which lacks tool integration, though Anthropic made no improvements to the underlying voice model itself.

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