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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

Fireflies.ai vs. Typecast

At a glance

At a glance

Fireflies.ai

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

Typecast

Best for

Best for creators who want expressive, emotion-controlled voiceover for video, audiobooks and podcasts.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion Fireflies.ai Typecast
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 Free tier; Basic from $5 / month Credit-based. The free tier offers trial voices only and requires attribution; commercial use starts on Basic.
Free trial Free plan Free tier with 3,000 lifetime credits (around 5 minutes), trial voices only
Commercial use Not stated Paid (Basic and above)
Output Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes Expressive AI speech with emotion and dynamics control; video export on paid tiers
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, instant and professional cloning; slots scale from one to ten by plan
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 generation via the API
Languages More than 100 languages with automatic language detection and speaker recognition; the pricing page marks the wider set as beta 35+ languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation is published Not documented: the API covers text-to-speech, streaming playback, word- and character-level timestamps and voice cloning from a sample, with no voice-conversion or dubbing endpoint
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 Emotion, pitch, intensity, speed and dynamics
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 Every voice actor on the platform has agreed to the use cases for their voice and keeps ownership of the model. Uploading a sample requires confirming permission for any third-party voice in it, and cloned voices stay private
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support Email helpdesk Email helpdesk
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations 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 Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price Fireflies.ai Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month Typecast Free tier; Basic from $5 / month
  • Free trial Fireflies.ai Free plan Typecast Free tier with 3,000 lifetime credits (around 5 minutes), trial voices only
  • Output Fireflies.ai Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes Typecast Expressive AI speech with emotion and dynamics control; video export on paid tiers
  • API Fireflies.ai Yes, from the Business plan Typecast Yes
  • Voice cloning Fireflies.ai No, Fireflies transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices Typecast Yes, instant and professional cloning; slots scale from one to ten by plan

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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

Typecast

Strengths

  • 700+ voices with fine emotion and delivery control
  • Context-aware emotion model adapts tone to the script
  • Affordable entry with a commercial license from $5 per month

Limitations

  • Free tier is limited to trial voices and requires attribution
  • Credit allowances are modest on the lower tiers

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.
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Typecast

  • Free $0 3,000 lifetime credits (around 5 minutes), trial voices only, attribution required.
  • Basic $5 / month $54 / year. 30,000 credits per month (around 35 minutes), all AI voices, commercial license, 1 instant cloning slot.
  • Plus $19 / month $204 / year. 40,000 credits per month, speed control, 1 professional cloning slot.
  • Pro $29 / month $312 / year. 75,000 credits per month, emotion and intonation controls, 2 cloning slots.
  • Business $69 / month $744 / year. 200,000 credits per month, 10 cloning slots, additional credit purchases.
  • Enterprise Not stated Custom pricing.
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Typecast

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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

Typecast https://typecast.ai · no check date recorded yet

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.