Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
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Voice interfaces that can reschedule meetings and draft email natively are turning assistants into real workflow actors, not just dictation layers. If you own customer- or employee-facing tools, you should be deciding now whether your system is the primary surface for these voice agents or just a background data source.
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