Following OpenAI’s launch of a new suite of conversational models and enhancements to ChatGPT’s voice functionality, competitor Anthropic is taking steps to enhance Claude’s voice capabilities with a fresh update. The company announced on Thursday that users will have the option to select from Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models.

Claude’s voice functionality, which debuted last year and was based on the Haiku model, delivered rapid replies but fell short for intricate tasks. The company indicated that with this latest update, the voice mode defaults to the last model used by the user in the text chat, employing its quickest version.

Anthropic mentioned that the revamped voice mode aids users during extended dialogues, such as offering critiques on their communication techniques, discussing a proposal with a client, and conducting brainstorming sessions for product market research.

Additionally, Claude’s voice mode can interface with various applications such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion. This allows users to request updates for meetings, compose emails, or generate documents within Notion.

Importantly, this marks a significant distinction from OpenAI’s voice mode, which refreshed its conversational approach but remains unable to utilize external tools for task completion.

Earlier this year, Anthropic introduced multilingual capabilities to Claude’s voice mode in beta form. They stated that users can now converse in multiple languages, though manual selection of the language is necessary. Currently, Anthropic accommodates English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish (Latin America/Spain).

The updated voice mode is accessible to all users in beta across different platforms. However, free users will be limited to the Haiku model with only one app connection available.

Anthropic has not altered the voice model with this update, nor have they specified the type of voice infrastructure it employs. Consequently, unlike OpenAI’s release, users may not experience enhancements in conversational aspects such as improved interruption management.