In a development that will surprise absolutely no one who has been watching the consumer voice AI space, Granola - the company known for its meeting notetaker - has launched a dictation feature. This comes just months after Wispr, the company known for its dictation tool, launched a meeting notetaker. It's the tech equivalent of two restaurants on the same block slowly copying each other's menu until they're indistinguishable.

Granola's dictation works on Mac, just like any other such tool. Users press the "Fn" key, start speaking, and the tool cleans up and formats their speech before posting the final text. It works across all apps, so you can post notes, dictate prompts, and reply to emails and messages - presumably while wondering why you ever learned to type.

The company said the feature will land on iOS and Windows soon, because apparently Mac users are the guinea pigs for yet another productivity tool.

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 trying to build its own models through a research lab exploring different human-computer interfaces. So they're both very expensive and very busy, just in slightly different directions - for now.

The feature mashups are not exclusive to Granola and Wispr. Other voice startups such as Fireflies, Speechify, and Monologue have also converged into multi-feature apps with meeting note-taking and dictation capabilities. Until earlier this year, the play was around having a focused app that does one thing well. But now, all of these apps are thinking about how to get more out of capturing users' speech - because apparently, doing one thing well is no longer enough when there's a $1.5 billion valuation on the line.