Granola adds dictation to take on Wispr

Meeting-notetaker Granola launched Mac dictation: users press Fn to transcribe and format speech across apps, months after dictation app Wispr added meeting notes. Valued at $1.5B and $2B respectively, the voice AI apps are converging on multi-feature bundles.

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