Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr

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Apps successful the user dependable AI satellite look to beryllium converging, arsenic Granola, known for its gathering notetaker, launched a dictation diagnostic today. This comes months aft Wispr, known for its dictation tool, launched a gathering notetaker.

Granola’s dictation presently works connected Mac conscionable similar immoderate different specified tool. Users tin property the “Fn” key, commencement speaking, and the instrumentality cleans up and formats their code and posts the last text. This diagnostic works crossed each apps, truthful users tin station notes, dictate prompts, and reply to emails and messages.

The institution said that the diagnostic volition onshore connected iOS and Windows soon.

Granola and Wispr are valued astatine $1.5 billion and $2 billion, respectively. Granola is focused connected meeting-related automation and note-taking. On the different hand, Wispr is trying to physique its ain models done a probe lab, which is exploring antithetic human-computer interfaces.

The diagnostic mashups are not exclusive to Granola and Wispr. Other dependable startups specified arsenic Fireflies, Speechify, and Monologue person converged into multi-feature apps with gathering note-taking and dictation capabilities. Until earlier successful the year, the play was astir having a focused app that does 1 happening well. But now, each of these apps are reasoning astir however to get much retired of capturing users’ speech.

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