Anthropic has announced the official release of a new feature, Voice Mode, for its Claude Code chatbot. This exciting new functionality started to roll out in May. Now, users can chat with the voice-enabled chatbot using their voice to complete a range of general-purpose tasks quickly and easily. With this large addition, Claude Code wants to make the coding experience even more smooth and seamless for its quickly-growing user base.
As of February, Claude Code’s run-rate revenue per year exceeded $2.5 billion, which is the golden threshold that many AI start-ups fail to cross. Claude Code grew quickly, with revenue doubling since January 2026. This truly astounding number is a testament to their staggering success. Weekly active user count has since January absolutely exploded, even doubling in just that short period of time. This increase emphasizes the platform’s popularity and effectiveness amongst the coding community.
At the moment, Voice Mode is available to only about 5% of Claude Code users. Most exciting, though, is that a wider rollout is coming in the next few weeks! To turn on this new feature, users just need to type “/voice” to switch it on. Once Claude Code is activated, he really gets going. It then processes those requests with speech-based commands, so users can use the tool without touching their phone at all.
The implementation of Voice Mode is the latest in Anthropic’s iterative push to provide the best experience and productivity to users. Claude Code helps its users tell stories with simple voice commands. This AI-powered code assistance helps developers reduce coding times and speeds up the entire development process. This ability is what has turned Claude Code into one of the hottest tools currently available. It sets its own course by taking dead aim at established leaders like Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Google’s and OpenAI’s Monkeskies.
Claude’s mobile app recently gained strong new voice features. It has been the surprising recent leader in overall user growth. This spike is part of a macro trend with users wanting less complex and time-consuming tools that are faster to code and develop with.
Industry insiders claim that Anthropic indeed had ongoing conversations with ElevenLabs about building Voice Mode. This partnership further emphasizes the company’s dedication to building cutting-edge voice technologies into their platform.
