Anthropic appears to be preparing to add a "model selector" to its spoken-conversation feature, Claude Voice Mode, according to interface screenshots shared on June 10, 2026. The control is not yet functional, and Anthropic has issued no official announcement.
June 10, 2026 · Claude Voice Mode
Claude Voice Mode is finally getting a real model selector
Until now every voice conversation has run on Claude Haiku 4.5 — no matter which model you picked. A new selector aims to bring the model choice already in text chat to voice, and lay groundwork for native speech-to-speech.
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model actually used in voice today — Haiku 4.5, regardless of your choice
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model tiers — Haiku, Sonnet, Opus — to soon be selectable in voice
73.3%
SWE-bench Verified for Haiku 4.5 — fast, low-cost default
Reference price per MTok (input / output)
Higher tiers cost more — voice has been stuck on the cheapest one
$1 / $5
Haiku 4.5fastest / cheapest
costlier
Sonnetbalanced mid-tier
most expensive
Opustop performance
How Voice Mode works today (TTS pipeline)
Voice → text → model → spoken reply. A model choice also paves the way toward future native speech-to-speech.
Voice inputspeech to text
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Model processesalways Haiku 4.5
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Read back via TTSElevenLabs voices
What users praise
Natural mid-conversation language switching
Seamless toggle between text and voice
File upload support
Hands-free coding via Claude Code voice
What frustrates them
Voice locked to Haiku 4.5 — no higher-tier power
Model confuses its own system info, apology loops
Unstable in voice even when text shows right model
TTS lags rivals on latency and naturalness
Timing remains "soon" — and unconfirmed
The language selector arrived in beta around May 2026, with expansion planned to German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and more. The model selector's release date is not yet set, and official specs are still to be confirmed.
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