On July 23, 2026, Anthropic announced a major update to Claude’s voice mode, officially introducing support for the Opus and Sonnet models, along with new automated cross-app collaboration capabilities. Users can now trigger automated actions in applications such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion through voice commands. The update supports ten major languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Free users are limited to connecting a single app when using the Haiku model, while paid users unlock access to all models and multi-app collaboration features, marking a significant step forward in AI voice interaction—from basic Q&A to complex task execution.Author and source: AIBase
On July 23, 2026, Anthropic announced a major update to the voice mode of its conversational assistant Claude, officially introducing support for the Opus and Sonnet models and adding automated cross-app ecosystem collaboration capabilities, marking a significant step forward in AI voice interaction from basic Q&A to complex task execution.
Previously, Claude's voice mode operated solely on the lightweight Haiku model, which offered extremely fast response times but faced clear limitations in handling deep reasoning and complex tasks. With this upgrade, voice mode will now default to the last model selected by the user in text chat (including Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku), and automatically match the fastest available version within each model to balance response efficiency.
Meanwhile, the voice mode has officially integrated with ecosystem apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion, enabling users to trigger complex actions—like updating meeting schedules, drafting emails, or creating documents—through voice commands, establishing a differentiated competitive advantage in tool interoperability.
In terms of language support, the new version has officially added 10 major languages—English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Latin America/Spain)—building on the earlier beta release. Users can manually select and switch between these languages in their settings.
Currently, this voice mode update is available to beta testers across all platforms. Free users are limited to connecting with a single app when using the Haiku model, while paid subscribers can unlock access to the full range of models and multi-app collaboration capabilities.
Although Anthropic has not yet restructured the underlying speech stack—it still relies on a turn-based dialogue mechanism rather than a full-duplex architecture—by combining the general reasoning capabilities of its advanced large models with external toolchains, it has significantly expanded the boundaries of voice interaction in commercial reasoning, product discussions, and office automation.