Dragon Professional vs Superwhisper

Dragon Professional v16 is Windows dictation and transcription software with an on-device privacy model. It converts live speech to text and transcribes pre-existing audio, including batches handled by the Auto Transcribe Folder Agent. Custom vocabulary and voice commands are supported; custom commands can insert boilerplate, signatures, and automate workflows. The software is optimized for Windows 11, backward-compatible with Windows 10, and optimized for Office 2021. Dragon Professional supports individual users, groups, and organizations. Its Management Center distributes disclosures, templates, forms, and legal boilerplate, while volume licensing supports adding users and redistributing licenses. Dragon Anywhere Mobile supports creating, editing, and formatting documents of any length. The product states that documents can be dictated up to three times faster than typing and that recognition accuracy can reach up to 99% from first use. Support resources include technical support, training materials, e-learning, and quarterly reviews. Dragon Professional is paid, with pricing available on request.

Superwhisper turns speech into formatted text for use across applications. Its Super Mode reads the screen and adjusts dictated text to the current app, for example treating email as a message or coding prompts technically. It supports more than 100 languages, automatic language detection, and translation between languages. On-device speech models process audio locally, work without internet, and keep audio off the device's outbound path. With cloud models, audio and text pass through the Superwhisper proxy to the provider; the product says they are not retained for training. It works wherever text can be entered and names Slack, Cursor, and Notion, with coding plugins for Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and Pi. A CLI can search and export transcripts, report recording statistics, and start a local MCP server. Free includes voice-to-text, meeting recording and transcription, and email support. Pro costs $8.49 per month or $84.99 per year and adds audio and video transcription, cloud and local models, custom API keys, and priority support. Pro features can be tried for 3,000 words before free-tier features remain available.