Can Claude generate audio output (text-to-speech) through the standard Anthropic API?
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Claude outputs text, not audio. For voice features, you combine Claude's text output with a TTS service like ElevenLabs, Amazon Polly, Google Cloud TTS, or similar.
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Full Explanation
As of Claude's foundational capabilities described in this course, the Anthropic API produces text (and structured data) outputs only — not audio, images, or video. For voice-enabled applications, the standard architecture is: speech-to-text (to transcribe user audio) → Claude API (for text processing) → text-to-speech (to voice the response). Popular TTS services include ElevenLabs, Amazon Polly, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, OpenAI TTS, and Azure Cognitive Services. All four options that suggest audio capabilities from Claude directly are incorrect.