🎤 Claude speaks in real time

Hi AI Futurists,

Anthropic launched a fast, fluid voice interface for Claude AI, giving users real-time conversational interaction. It’s currently for Pro users on mobile and signals a new phase of human-AI collaboration. Let’s take a look.

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Lex

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Anthropic has introduced a real-time voice mode for its Claude AI assistant, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice and Apple’s rumored AI plans. This new feature lets users hold back-and-forth conversations with Claude using one of five built-in voices. It’s available in Claude’s mobile apps and currently exclusive to subscribers of its Claude Pro plan. The voice assistant taps into the Claude 3 model family, especially the Opus model, known for its contextual memory and reasoning skills. You can try it now via Claude’s app.

Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic is not using synthesized celebrity voices. Instead, their focus is on voices that sound natural and clear. As Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei puts it, “we’ve designed our voice mode to be fast, intuitive, and grounded in privacy.” Behind the scenes, Claude uses a real-time speech-to-text engine and conversational memory, though long-term memory is still disabled for now. This creates a fluid user experience that mirrors natural speech rhythm. The demo showed Claude replying almost instantly, matching the snappiness users expect from human conversation.

While voice assistants aren’t new, the level of nuance and memory Claude brings is making a real-time, AI-powered conversation more human. For founders, developers, or knowledge workers, this means less friction in how we pull information, ideate, and collaborate with machines. Voice interfaces aren’t just a convenience. They’re becoming a key part of how creative and cognitive labor gets done.

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