Granola Voice Typing vs Wispr Flow: I tested Granola dictation for speed and accuracy

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Granola launched Voice Typing, its dictation feature, on 29 October 2026. I've used Wispr Flow for dictation for the last year, so the same day I put Granola dictation against it: ten scripts that get harder each round, timed to the millisecond and scored for accuracy. I filmed the whole test, and this page has every number, every script and the method, so you can check my working or run it yourself.

What is Granola Voice Typing (Granola dictation)?

Granola Voice Typing lets you dictate into any app on your Mac. You hold a key, speak, let go, and Granola pastes cleaned-up, formatted text where your cursor is. It is separate from Granola's meeting transcription, and works in other apps such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gmail. All of the facts below come from Granola's Voice Typing page and help docs, as of 29 October 2026.

Is Granola Voice Typing free?

Yes. Granola says Voice Typing is included free in every Granola plan, with unlimited words.

Does Granola Voice Typing work on Windows or iPhone?

Not yet. It is in beta on the Mac desktop app only, with Windows, iOS and Android listed as coming soon.

How long can one dictation be?

Up to 20 minutes. At 20 minutes Granola stops listening and pastes what you have said so far.

Can you change the Granola Voice Typing shortcut?

Yes. The default is the fn (globe) key, and you can set any key or combination in Granola's Voice Typing settings.

Granola Voice Typing vs Wispr Flow: the results, round by round

Speed is the time from letting go of the hotkey to the text appearing. Accuracy is the word error rate (WER): the share of words that came out wrong, missing or extra. Lower is better for both.

Wispr Flow was faster in 9 of 9 rounds, by between 4% and 70%. Granola made fewer errors in 5 rounds and tied in the other 4. Its average word error rate is about four times lower, but four rounds were 0% for both tools, so the whole gap comes from rounds 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10. Round 5 was not run (see the method below).

Where each tool slipped

These are the mistakes as I read them out on camera. Each one links to the moment in the video.

• Round 4, acronyms. Wispr Flow made "endpoint" plural and turned "loop in the CTO" into "whip in the CTO" (04:15). Granola made a similar slip, "whipping the CTO" (04:33).
• Round 6, product names. Wispr Flow got PostHog wrong (05:22). Granola got Claude Code and Attio wrong, and everything else right (05:40).
• Round 7, self-corrections. Wispr Flow dropped "and book" and formatted its answer as a list. I judged its output "pretty spot on" (06:51), so its 13.3% here probably overstates its real errors. Granola was flawless.
• Round 9, place names. Wispr Flow wrote "Northampton" instead of Loughborough (09:11). Granola got Loughborough right (09:36).
• Round 10, boss level. Wispr Flow got Okafor wrong, wrote "Rory" instead of Ruairí and missed a word (11:37). Granola got Okafor right but also missed Ruairí (12:16).

How to set up Granola Voice Typing

From Granola's help docs, as of 29 October 2026:

1. Open Granola's Voice Typing settings and allow Accessibility for Granola in macOS System Settings, so it can detect your shortcut and paste into other apps.
2. Allow microphone access, then test your shortcut.
3. Click into the text field you want to write in.
4. Press and hold the fn (globe) key, speak, then let go. Granola finishes the text and pastes it in.
5. For longer messages, double-tap the shortcut to go hands-free, and press it again to finish.
6. Press Esc to cancel, while you are speaking or while Granola is finishing.

If you already use Wispr Flow, both apps default to fn. I moved Granola to Option so I could run them side by side.

Granola vs Wispr Flow pricing (29 October 2026)

Prices in US dollars from each vendor's pricing page on 29 October 2026.

Granola's pricing page doesn't state a billing period, so none is assumed here. Wispr Flow's pricing page lists a meeting Notetaker on its plans too (limited on Free), so the two products now overlap in both directions: Granola has added dictation, and Wispr Flow has added meeting notes.

How I tested

• Hardware and apps. A 2021 MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro chip, running the current versions of Granola and Wispr Flow on 29 October 2026.
• Scripts. The same ten scripts (below), read into each tool once per round, with each app on its own hotkey.
• Speed. Measured from letting go of the hotkey to the text landing in the box. Both apps intercept their hotkey before a web page can see it, so I timed the key release with a small native macOS listener that reads each key event's own hardware timestamp, and timed the text with the page itself. "Settled" means no new text for 1.2 seconds. The figure includes each app's processing and paste step, so it is the delay you feel, not the speech model's speed on its own.
• Accuracy. Word error rate = (wrong words + missing words + extra words) ÷ words in the script. Scoring was lenient: it forgives formatting that means the same thing, such as 6.45 am for 6:45am, 18 percent for 18%, WiFi for Wi-Fi, missing accents and spaces in phone numbers. Wrong words still count. Rounds 7 and 10 are scored against what I meant after correcting myself mid-sentence, not word for word.
• What I left out. Round 5 (names) was skipped on camera. I also dropped a second speed measure, time from the end of speech, because the test page listening to the mic interfered with Wispr Flow.

The 10 test scripts

Each round is harder than the last. Use them to run your own comparison.

1. Warm-up (plain conversational prose): "Hi Sarah, thanks for sending the notes over this morning. I've had a quick look and they make sense to me. Could we find half an hour later this week to talk through the next steps? Let me know what suits you best."
2. Numbers and money (currency, decimals, percentages, phone numbers): "The invoice comes to £1,247.50 including VAT, and it's due on 14 November 2026. We sold 312 seats last quarter, up 18% on the 264 the quarter before. Call me on 07700 900123 if anything looks wrong."
3. Dates, times, units (times, dates, units, symbols): "I land at 6:45am on Tuesday 3 March, then catch the 9:15 from King's Cross to Leeds. It's about 300 km, so roughly 2 hours 10 minutes. The room holds 40 people, it's 21°C inside, and the Wi-Fi runs at 500 Mbps."
4. Acronyms (business and tech acronyms): "The CFO wants the Q3 KPIs and the updated OKRs in the board pack before the AGM. Ask HMRC whether VAT applies, and check the DPA covers GDPR. The API returns a 404 on the SSO endpoint, so loop in the CTO and our AWS rep."
5. Names (Irish, Polish, Vietnamese and Nigerian names, accents; not run in this test): "Please add Siobhan Ní Bhriain, Tadhg O'Donoghue and Jakub Wójcik to the Thursday call. Then ask Nguyen Thi Minh Anh to forward the contract to Chiamaka Okonkwo-Adeyemi. Copy in Saoirse and Aoife, but not Niamh."
6. Product names (tool names, camel case, brand spellings): "Connect Claude Code to Attio through the MCP server, then deploy the Next.js app to Vercel. Log the events in PostHog, send the emails with Resend, and keep the data in Supabase. Use Cowork for the research, then push the notes into Notion and Todoist."
7. Self-corrections (fillers, restarts, "no wait" edits): "So, um, let's meet on Tuesday, no wait, Wednesday afternoon. Send the deck to Priya, sorry, I mean to Raj. And book the Leeds office, no, actually the Manchester one." Scored against what I meant: "Let's meet on Wednesday afternoon. Send the deck to Raj. And book the Manchester office."
8. Emails, links, code (email addresses, URLs, terminal commands): "Email the draft to hello@example.co.uk and copy in ops-team@example.com. The link is example.com/pricing?plan=pro. In the terminal, run npm install, then git checkout -b fix/login-bug, and set NODE_ENV to production."
9. Homophones, places (context-dependent spelling, British place names): "Their team said they're over there, waiting for the principal to explain her principles. Whether the weather affects the effect is beside the point. Next we drive through Worcester, Leicester, Loughborough and Bicester, then on to Gloucester."
10. Boss level (everything at once, read fast): "Right, quick one: Dr Okafor's PA, Ms Hughes-Whitfield, moved the Q4 OKR review from 10:30 to 2:45pm on Friday 12 December, so tell the CFO, the CTO and Ruairí. The budget's £48,250, no, sorry, £52,000 now, about 7.5% over. Send the PDF to finance@example.co.uk and say it's urgent." Scored against what I meant: "Right, quick one: Dr Okafor's PA, Ms Hughes-Whitfield, moved the Q4 OKR review from 10:30 to 2:45pm on Friday 12 December, so tell the CFO, the CTO and Ruairí. The budget's £52,000 now, about 7.5% over. Send the PDF to finance@example.co.uk and say it's urgent."

Granola dictation or Wispr Flow: which should you use?

• Choose Granola Voice Typing if accuracy matters most to you, you're on a Mac and you already use Granola for meetings. It's free, and it made fewer errors in this test.
• Choose Wispr Flow if you want the fastest feel, or you need dictation on Windows, iPhone or Android today.

My verdict at the end of the test: "If you are happy waiting a couple hundred milliseconds extra to get a more accurate dictation, I think you should be using Granola" (12:40).

Limitations, and what would change the verdict

This is one person's test: one run per round, one speaker, one Mac, and Granola Voice Typing is still in beta. Round 5 was skipped, and an automatic scorer can't always tell a formatting choice from a mistake (round 7 is the clearest case). A different accent, microphone or vocabulary could change the result.

I'll re-test when Granola Voice Typing leaves beta or reaches Windows, and by 31 December 2026 either way.

Updates: 29 October 2026, first published.

Written by James McAulay. Wispr Flow and Granola links on this page are affiliate links.