Anthropic has started asking Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help train and improve its AI models.
The new command prompt appears when using Claude’s voice features and specifically asks users to allow Anthropic to use their voice data for AI training.
“Allow us to use your voice data to improve our AI models,” Anthropic notes in the solicitation.
“Audio recordings and voice chat data help improve the way Anthropic AI models understand and respond to speech. Disable this feature or delete this data at any time in Settings.”
The good news is that this appears to be completely optional. You can choose either Allow or Not nowand there is also a special switch in Claude’s privacy settings.
Interestingly, voice training is independent of Anthropic’s existing option to use your chats and programming sessions for model training.
This means you could allow Anthropic to train your voice conversations while excluding regular chats and Claude Code sessions, or vice versa.
Claude receives a separate voice data training switch
Under Settings > Privacy, Anthropic describes the option as “Allow us to use your voice data.”
“During approved sessions, allow the use of your audio recordings and voice chat data to improve Anthropic AI models,” the setting says.
In the interface we saw, the setting is disabled by default, so Anthropic doesn’t automatically allow users to share their voice recordings.
You can also disable the option later, and Anthropic says users can delete voice data from Settings if they change their mind.
