Anthropic now asks Claude users to opt in to sharing their voice conversations to help train speech models. When users engage Claude’s voice features a prompt gives a clear choice to allow or decline, and a dedicated privacy toggle labeled for voice data appears in Settings > Privacy. The option is off by default, can be changed at any time, and Anthropic says users can delete stored voice recordings if they change their mind. Anthropic frames the collection as a way to improve how Claude understands and responds to spoken input, and the UI separates this consent from other data uses.
Voice-based training is handled independently from the existing consent for using text chats and code sessions, so a user can permit voice data collection while excluding chat or coding data, or vice versa. That separation and the ability to revoke or remove data are the key specifics; nothing is automatically opted in. The announcement prompted user concern about privacy and broader surveillance risks, with commenters warning that AI’s scaling of analysis makes audio collection especially sensitive.
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