Best for
Best for sales, recruiting and client teams whose meeting notes have to land in a CRM or applicant tracking system rather than a folder.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI Voice & Speech Comparison
Fireflies.ai vs. Respeecher
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for film, TV and game studios that need convincing, licensed recreations of a specific voice.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Fireflies.ai | Respeecher |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month The $10 rate is billed annually; on monthly billing Pro is $18 per seat. Business is $19 billed annually or $29 monthly, and Enterprise $39 per seat / month on annual billing only. | lower value Text-to-speech API from $2 / hour Pay-as-you-go, cancel anytime. Custom voice cloning and enterprise projects are quoted separately. |
| Free trial | Free plan | Free testing for the Marketplace and API |
| Commercial use | Not stated | Yes, licensed voices |
| Output | Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes | Voice cloning, speech-to-speech, accent correction and de-aging; real-time TTS via API |
| API | Yes, from the Business plan | Yes |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps | Not stated |
| Voice cloning | No, Fireflies transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices | Yes, enterprise-grade cloning of specific voices |
| Real-time use | Yes, a bot joins the call and records it live, and the mobile and desktop apps capture conversations held in person | Yes, real-time text-to-speech API (Respeecher Space) |
| Languages | More than 100 languages with automatic language detection and speaker recognition; the pricing page marks the wider set as beta | Language-agnostic, major global languages and accents |
| Speech-to-speech and dubbing | No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation is published | Yes, speech-to-speech conversion, accent correction and de-aging |
| Editing and controls | AI summaries with overviews, bullet points, action items and custom notes, speaker talk-time analytics, sentiment analysis, topic trackers and AI filters, plus AskFred for questions across past meetings | Marketplace voices are filtered by age, gender and pitch across 40+ voices and 160+ narration styles and accents; the Pro Tools plugin runs conversions inside the DAW and shifts pitch by up to 12 semitones |
| Consent and trust | The vendor states SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance, zero data retention and private dedicated storage with customer data ownership; Enterprise adds custom data retention and a super admin role | Explicit permission is required for every voice replication, secured through a mutually signed agreement with the voice owner; client data is used only to train the agreed voice models |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Email helpdesk | Not stated |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Not stated |
| Company size | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | more entries Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad, Lifesize, Aircall, RingCentral, Zoom Phone, OpenPhone, Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, OneNote, Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, Linear, Airtable, Asana, Microsoft To Do, Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Zapier | Pro Tools |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Fireflies.ai Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month Respeecher Text-to-speech API from $2 / hour
- Free trial Fireflies.ai Free plan Respeecher Free testing for the Marketplace and API
- Company size Fireflies.ai Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Respeecher Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Output Fireflies.ai Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes Respeecher Voice cloning, speech-to-speech, accent correction and de-aging; real-time TTS via API
- API Fireflies.ai Yes, from the Business plan Respeecher Yes
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Fireflies.ai
Strengths
- Covers Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad and Lifesize, plus dialers and uploaded audio files
- More than 100 languages with automatic detection
- Over 100 integrations carry summaries into CRM, ATS, chat and docs
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance with zero data retention
Limitations
- Transcription only, no text-to-speech or voice cloning
- API access, analytics and private channels all start at the Business plan
- The vendor marks the wider language set as beta
Respeecher
Strengths
- Broadcast-quality cloning trusted by major film and game studios
- Covers speech-to-speech, accent correction and voice de-aging, not just text-to-speech
- Marketplace and API are self-serve with pay-as-you-go pricing
Limitations
- Built for studios; the strongest features run through custom enterprise projects
- Public pricing is limited to the marketplace and API
Plans
Pricing
Fireflies.ai
- Free $0 Free forever for one person: limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits a month.
- Pro $10 / seat / month Billed annually, or $18 per seat on monthly billing. Unlimited transcription and AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, downloads, the personal and email assistants and unlimited integrations.
- Business $19 / seat / month Billed annually, or $29 per seat on monthly billing. Unlimited storage, 30 AI credits, multi-language mode, conversation intelligence, team analytics for admins, public meeting access, user groups and private channels.
- Enterprise $39 / seat / month Annual billing only. Adds the rules engine, SSO and SCIM, audit logs, HIPAA compliance, private storage, custom data retention, a super admin role and a dedicated account manager.
Respeecher
- Text-to-Speech API $2 / hour Pay-as-you-go, cancel anytime.
- Voice Marketplace Not stated 40+ AI voices with a Pro Tools plugin; free testing available.
- Custom / Enterprise Not stated Bespoke voice cloning and de-aging, quoted on contact.
What users say
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Fireflies.ai
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
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- Onboarding
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- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
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- Features
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Respeecher
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
- Not rated yet
- Features
- Not rated yet
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Fireflies.ai https://fireflies.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12
Respeecher https://www.respeecher.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-05
This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.