Anthropic Expands Claude Voice to 18 Languages as Mobile App Adds Push-to-Talk

5 articles · Updated · TestingCatalog · May 27

18 new languages have surfaced in Claude’s mobile app ahead of launch, alongside a beta Language setting that lets users switch languages mid-conversation.
The update also adds a refreshed voice UI, a glow animation around the orb and push-to-talk, extending Claude’s turn-based voice mode rather than moving to full-duplex streaming.
English is the only live option now, but the app lists German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian among others; most new languages appear to have one or two voices each.
The rollout would narrow a visible gap with ChatGPT and Gemini, which already support multilingual voice, while suggesting Anthropic is layering orchestration over external audio providers rather than replacing them.
No release timeline has been disclosed, and the language list could still change before Anthropic enables the feature publicly.

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