From that article:<p>> According to the report, Anthropic was holding talks with Amazon, the company’s major investor and partner, and voice-focused AI startup ElevenLabs, to possibly drive future voice features for Claude.<p>> It’s unclear which of those partnerships, if any, came to fruition.<p>Here's an easy way to confirm that: check Anthropic's "Trust Center" and review any recent updates. <a href="https://trust.anthropic.com/updates" rel="nofollow">https://trust.anthropic.com/updates</a><p>Sure enough, on May 29th they have a subprocessor change:<p>> As of May 29th, 2025, we have added ElevenLabs, which supports text to speech functionality in Claude for Work mobile apps.<p>I wonder what they're using for speech-to-text?
Things I love:<p>1. Start and stop button. I love this explicit control over who is talking when.<p>2. Ability to upload files while the voice chat is going. Great idea. Often times I use gpt voice chat for studying, and it's annoying when I need to add another PDF to the context, since I need to stop the chat, upload, and then restart the voice session.<p>3. Real-time text display during voice chat. I asked you to take the derivative of a function I described, and it outlined its steps, but it wasn't just the transcription of what it was saying.<p>Things I hate:<p>1. The transcription is terrible. It took me 10 tries during the conversation to describe f(x) = x^2. Looking back on the transcriptions, it's literally nonsense.<p>2. There was a buggy moment when the voice conversation started but it was still demoing all the voice options simultaneously. Need some polishing.
There was a seemingly odd quick sequence of announcements from elevenlabs the last 24 hours, makes me think it's them - notably, I believe they launched 2.0 of their conversational AI today.
I really wish Anthropic would focus all of their developer resources on implementing “download all files”.<p>I know it’s a massive challenge and might take years to get right but the endless copy and paste is wearing me down.
I really want to like Claude, but I hit their limit WAY too early when I PAID for it, 9 months ago, WAY before I hit any type of limit on gippity. (gippity - gpt , gimminy - gemini).