Wispr Flow, an AI-powered dictation app, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from NEA, 8VC, and notable tech leaders. Menlo’s Matt Kraning will join the board. This brings Wispr's total funding to $56 million. The startup, founded by CEO Tanay Kothari, aims to enable users to type by mouthing words silently.

It feels like AI companies want us all to talk to their products out loud more often. Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, to name a few, have added functionality to let users talk with their AI bots as naturally as they would with another person, taking advantage of advances in speech-to-text technology.A startup called Wispr Flow feels it can outdo the bigwigs, though, with its dictation tech that supports more than 100 languages. The company today augmented its existing Windows and Mac apps with a new iOS app that doubles as a keyboard, letting you use your voice to type inside any app.Now, you might be thinking this is just another speech-to-text company, but this reporter came away particularly impressed with Wispr Flow. As an Indian, I’ve never found a speech-to-text app that can fully understand what I am saying. I have also had a hard time getting AI assistants like Alexa and Siri to execute requests.However, Wispr Flow presented a vastly better experience compared to any dictation tech I’ve used from Big Tech. At first, I had to edit my sentences across the Wispr Flow desktop and mobile apps, but after using it a few times, the dictation experience improved drastically