# Voice Mode Thinking Partner

> Use voice mode as a sounding board for problems you cannot type your way through — rehearsing a pitch, weighing competing offers, reviewing your own reasoning out loud, or brainstorming — by picking the right model for the conversation, connecting the tools that let talking turn into doing, and setting the language up front. Use when preparing for a high-stakes conversation, when you want gaps found in your own logic, when a spoken session should end in a calendar change, a draft, or a one-pager, or when deciding between the free and paid voice tiers.

- Skill: `uygnoey/voice-mode-thinking-partner` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add uygnoey/voice-mode-thinking-partner`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/uygnoey/voice-mode-thinking-partner/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: uygnoey (https://skillmd.com/u/uygnoey)
- Updated: 2026-09-21
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/uygnoey/voice-mode-thinking-partner

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# Voice mode as a thinking partner

Some problems you can't type your way through. Voice mode is for practicing for an important pitch
meeting, deciding between multiple offers, reviewing your own process out loud, or brainstorming new
ideas.

Until this update, voice mode ran only on Claude Haiku, chosen for speed. It now runs on **Claude
Opus, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Haiku** — Opus and Sonnet are models designed for hard problem-solving
— and it can reach connected tools like Gmail and Slack and hold the conversation in more languages.

## Instructions

### 1. Pick the model for the problem, not the format

Opus and Sonnet are the ones designed for hard problem-solving; Haiku is the fast one. Choose from the
model picker, and switch mid-conversation if the problem turns out to be harder or lighter than you
expected.

Voice mode uses the **fastest version of whichever model you've selected**, so the conversation still
runs smoothly. It **defaults to the last model you used in text chat**, which means you can move
between voice and text without starting over — think out loud, then open the same thread and keep
going in text.

### 2. Ask for the work, not the summary

The useful shape is not "tell me about X." It is handing Claude your own reasoning and asking it to be
adversarial with it. Talk through the client pitch and ask Claude to find the gaps in your logic;
practice the conversation and ask for feedback on how you're communicating. See
[examples/voice-session-prompts.md](examples/voice-session-prompts.md).

### 3. Connect the tools before the session, so talking can turn into doing

Connect tools under **Settings > Connectors**. With permission, Claude can act on what you just
talked about:

- Push a meeting on your Google Calendar by 30 minutes.
- Turn a conversation about a client pitch into a one-pager in Canva.
- Summarize received emails and draft responses to critical ones.

Connect them first — a session that ends in a decision is more useful when the decision can be
executed before you put the phone down.

### 4. Set the language deliberately

Eleven languages are supported. **Automatic detection is not available**, so select the language
manually or ask for it out loud at the start of the conversation. Full list in
[references/models-tools-languages.md](references/models-tools-languages.md).

### 5. Know what your plan gives you

The update is in **beta** for all chat users on mobile, desktop, and web, and **works best from your
phone**.

- **Free plan** — Claude Haiku, one connected tool, and all available languages.
- **Paid plans** — expanded models and all your connected tools.

Voice conversations count toward your regular usage limits, so a long spoken session draws from the
same budget as text.

## Examples

Written out in [examples/voice-session-prompts.md](examples/voice-session-prompts.md). The four uses
the post names:

**Rehearsal.** Practice for an important conversation and ask for feedback on how you're
communicating.

**Pressure-testing.** Talk through a client pitch and ask Claude to find the gaps in your logic.

**Brainstorming with a check.** Brainstorm ideas for your product roadmap and ask Claude to validate
them with competitive research.

**Post-mortem on a result.** Evaluate hypotheses for why your last video went viral.

Each of these ends better with a connected tool attached: the roadmap brainstorm becomes a one-pager,
the rehearsal ends with the follow-up meeting moved, the pitch review ends with the critical emails
drafted.

## Source

["Think through hard problems in voice mode"](https://claude.com/blog/think-through-hard-problems-in-voice-mode)
— published July 23, 2026.