# Claude Voice

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Claude Voice and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People like its conversational voice mode, which they find smarter than some rivals and pretty good on Opus, though critics say it is buggy with tool calling and loses connection in long chats.

## Why people recommend it

- Better than rival voice chats (2 comments): "Claude voice mode has come a long way! I'd say it's smarter than CGPT AVM last time i tried it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020160)) "I have found Claude‘s voice chat to be better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46235193))

## What people warn about

- Buggy tool calling, no tool access (2 comments): "Claude voice mode is usable, but very buggy around tool calling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340337)) "Claude's voice mode doesn't work for me, it doesn't have access to my tools" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239498))
- Pinned to Haiku, lost capability (2 comments): "when they revamped it, it lost that capability and is now pinned to Haiku" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841710)) "it lost that capability and is now pinned to Haiku" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834659))
- Weak on articles and breaking news (2 comments): "Claude voice refuses to actually read the article and relies on snippets it finds in web searches" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945572)) "claude simply cannot find any info about a breaking topic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457131))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Siri](https://hackerapproved.com/p/siri.md): 165 recommend
- [Google Assistant](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-assistant.md): 33 recommend
- [Grok voice](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grok-voice-mode.md): 9 recommend
- [Jarvis](https://hackerapproved.com/p/own-personal-jarvis.md): 7 recommend
- [ChatGPT Live](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chatgpt-live.md): 7 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://claude.ai/login)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Claude Voice", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-voice-mode/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).