Granola, known for meeting notes, has added a voice dictation feature for Mac. Users can press the “Fn” key, speak, and have the tool clean up and format their words before placing the text in an app.
The launch reflects a broader shift among voice-focused apps: products that once concentrated on a single task are expanding to handle more ways of capturing speech.
Dictation works across Mac apps
Granola’s new feature works across apps on Mac. That means users can dictate notes, prompts, email replies, and messages without limiting voice typing to a dedicated writing space.
The workflow is straightforward: press “Fn,” speak, and let Granola turn the speech into formatted text. The company describes the feature as offering unlimited words for free.
That makes dictation an extension of Granola’s existing meeting note-taking focus. The app can now help capture speech during meetings and also convert speech into text elsewhere on a user’s Mac.
Meeting notes and dictation are converging
Granola’s release comes months after Wispr, a company known for dictation, launched a meeting notetaker. The two products are moving toward overlapping capabilities from different starting points: Granola from meeting automation and Wispr from voice typing.
The shift is not limited to these two companies. Fireflies, Speechify, and Monologue are also described as evolving into apps with multiple features, including meeting note-taking and dictation.
Until earlier in the year, the focus was on building a specialized app that did one thing well. Now, voice startups are considering how to get more value from users’ speech by supporting more than one use for it.
More platforms are planned
For now, Granola dictation is available on Mac. The company says the feature will arrive on iOS and Windows soon, which would extend voice typing beyond the desktop platform where it launched.
The announcement does not specify when those versions will be released. For Mac users, the current feature connects spoken input with everyday tasks across apps, from composing a message to entering a prompt.
Different strategies in the voice AI market
Granola and Wispr are valued at $1.5 billion and $2 billion, respectively. Granola is focused on meeting-related automation and note-taking, while Wispr is building its own models through a research lab exploring different human-computer interfaces.
Their expanding feature sets point to a common question for voice AI companies: how many tasks can one app support as it captures what people say? Adding dictation to meeting notes, or meeting notes to dictation, gives users more ways to work with speech in one product.
As these services add capabilities, the category is becoming less defined by a single function. Granola’s Mac launch is one example of that broader movement, bringing voice typing into a product already built around meeting notes.