Fireflies Adds Fireflies Talk Dictation to Mac and Windows Apps

The feature, called Fireflies Talk, lets users press the Fn key on Mac or Ctrl + Win on Windows to start speaking, no matter which app is open. Fireflies records their voice and transcribes it neatly in the text field of the app. It works like dictation products such as Wispr Flow, Willow and SuperWhisper.

Fireflies has bundled the dictation into its existing subscription plans rather than charging for it separately. Wispr took the opposite route, releasing its meeting notetaker for free for its existing dictation app users. Speechify has also introduced dictation capabilities across different apps.

“People speak roughly 3x faster than they type, and voice is a much more natural way to get work done. Meetings were just the starting point; the bigger vision has always been Fred as your AI teammate throughout the day. Talk takes Fireflies beyond meetings into email, Slack, docs, prompts, and wherever else you work,” Fireflies CEO Krish Ramineni told TechCrunch over email.

Fireflies said it does not keep any recordings and stores dictation transcripts locally. Like other meeting notetakers and productivity suites, the company is aiming to automate workflows based on meeting transcriptions and the context it builds on its users, and it has plans to build an assistant that taps that context.

The company has been expanding its product lineup. Last year, Fireflies introduced “mini-apps” to extract insights in different ways from meetings. Last month, it launched a feature to manage inboxes and draft emails on users’ behalf.

Editor's Summary

Fireflies.ai has launched Fireflies Talk, a dictation feature in its Mac and Windows desktop apps that transcribes speech into any open application. The feature is included in existing subscriptions, and Fireflies says it does not retain recordings and stores transcripts locally. The move extends Fireflies beyond meeting notes as it works toward broader workflow automation and an assistant tied to user context.