Voice AI has made significant inroads in several consumer applications: The primary area is note-taking during meetings, while the secondary is AI-enhanced dictation, where filler words are omitted and the text appears polished. Fireflies.ai, having established a strong presence in the meeting note-taking arena, is now expanding into dictation with a new feature available on its Mac and Windows applications.

Named Fireflies Talk, the dictation functionality operates similarly to other existing solutions like Wispr Flow, Willow, or SuperWhisper. Users can activate speaking by pressing the Fn key on Mac or Ctrl + Win on Windows, regardless of the application in use, and Fireflies will capture their speech and transcribe it neatly into the text area of the app.

“Individuals generally communicate approximately three times faster than they type, and using voice is a far more intuitive method to accomplish tasks. Meetings were merely the initial step; the broader ambition has always been for Fred to serve as your AI partner throughout the day. Talk propels Fireflies beyond meetings into email, Slack, documents, prompts, and anywhere else you engage in work,” stated Fireflies CEO Krish Ramineni in an email to TechCrunch.

The organization has integrated the dictation feature into its current subscription packages rather than offering it as a standalone purchase. This approach isn’t entirely novel. Wispr chose an alternative strategy, making its meeting notetaker available for free to users of its existing dictation app. Speechify has also rolled out dictation features across various applications.

Fireflies indicated that it does not retain any recordings and saves dictation transcripts locally.

Similar to other meeting notetaking applications and productivity platforms, Fireflies aspires to automate workflows depending on meeting transcriptions and the contextual information it gathers about its users, with intentions to develop an assistant that utilizes that context.

In the previous year, the company unveiled “mini-apps” designed to derive insights from meetings in diverse manners, and last month, it released a functionality to oversee your inbox and draft emails on your behalf.