{
  "title": "Realtime voice",
  "description": "Speak and listen over a live audio session.",
  "slug": "realtime-voice",
  "locale": "en",
  "seoTitle": "Realtime voice — Can My Agent Use",
  "socialTitle": "Realtime voice",
  "socialDescription": "Compare live speech input and audio response support.",
  "llmSummary": "Realtime voice supports live spoken input and audio responses. Turn-taking, interruption, latency, models, and session limits are qualifiers.",
  "audience": "Engineers comparing chat, desktop, and CLI agent harnesses.",
  "contentKind": "feature",
  "status": "published",
  "tags": [
    "perception"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "category": "perception",
  "summary": "Speak and listen over a live audio session.",
  "specLabel": "Common product term",
  "aliases": [],
  "capabilityKind": "atomic",
  "related": [],
  "relations": [],
  "highlight": false,
  "notes": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "text": "Product cells without reviewed public evidence remain unknown; dictation or read-aloud alone does not qualify as a live two-way audio session."
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Microsoft documents Copilot Voice on copilot.com as listening continuously, speaking responses aloud, allowing interruption and follow-up speech, and producing a transcript when the live session ends."
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "text": "Evidence checked 2026-08-28: Anthropic documents beta voice mode on Claude web and Claude Desktop as a complete two-way spoken conversation with hands-free and push-to-talk operation."
    }
  ],
  "issues": [],
  "resources": [
    {
      "title": "Methodology",
      "href": "/methodology",
      "kind": "note"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAI — Realtime API reference",
      "href": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/realtime",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "OpenAI",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28"
    },
    {
      "id": "microsoft-copilot-voice",
      "title": "Microsoft — Using Copilot Voice",
      "href": "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsoft-Copilot/using-copilot-voice-with-microsoft-copilot",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Microsoft",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "How to use Copilot Voice"
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic-claude-voice-mode",
      "title": "Anthropic — Use voice mode",
      "href": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11101966-use-voice-mode",
      "kind": "docs",
      "publisher": "Anthropic",
      "evidenceType": "documented",
      "reviewedAt": "2026-08-28",
      "locator": "Web and Claude Desktop; hands-free and push-to-talk modes"
    }
  ],
  "support": [
    {
      "harness": "copilot-web",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            2
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current Microsoft Copilot Voice support documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "hosted-default",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "policy",
              "value": "requires microphone permission; conversations can be time-limited and subscriber priority applies when capacity is constrained"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "microsoft-copilot-voice",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "claude-web",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            3
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "hosted-observation",
            "revision": "2026-08-28 Claude web voice-mode documentation observation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "hosted-default",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "preview",
              "value": "voice mode is beta, counts toward normal plan usage, and can be disabled by an Enterprise owner through support"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-claude-voice-mode",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ],
          "stage": "preview"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "harness": "claude-desktop",
      "versions": [
        {
          "track": "current",
          "status": "yes",
          "noteIds": [
            3
          ],
          "target": {
            "kind": "dated-documentation",
            "revision": "current Claude Desktop voice-mode documentation",
            "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
          },
          "environmentProfile": "local-default",
          "qualifiers": [
            {
              "type": "preview",
              "value": "voice mode is beta and uses hosted Claude models; this is a desktop client capability, not local audio-model execution"
            }
          ],
          "evidence": [
            {
              "resourceId": "anthropic-claude-voice-mode",
              "type": "documented",
              "observedAt": "2026-08-28"
            }
          ],
          "stage": "preview"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "html": "/features/realtime-voice",
  "markdown": "/features/realtime-voice.md",
  "json": "/api/v1/features/realtime-voice.json",
  "body": "Speak and listen over a live audio session.\n\nThe matrix below lists published **web**, **desktop**, and **CLI** surfaces. Unreviewed cells remain **unknown** until a dated note and public source support a more specific status.\n\nUse the Markdown and JSON twins if you are an agent reading this site."
}