FTR Justice Cloud vs WhisperAI Legal Transcription

FTR Justice Cloud captures, stores, reviews, and manages court records. It records courtroom audio and video, supports live speech-to-text with speaker identification, and provides playback, monitoring, transcription, and summaries. Judges, clerks, and attorneys can review and annotate proceedings, while courts can handle requests for recordings, certified transcripts, and speech-to-text outputs. Courts may also provide online ordering, request tracking, and secure delivery. The system supports existing courtroom hardware, legacy audio uploads, and connections to case-management, evidence-management, and other systems. Recording can continue locally without connectivity; audio uploads and speech-to-text generation resume when a connection returns. The maker says recordings and transcripts are not used to train generative-AI systems or shared externally for model development. The platform is offered through API, macOS, web, and Windows, and its desktop app supports transcribers and court reporters. People requesting records through participating courts must create a free account using an email address. Pricing is available on request.

WhisperAI Legal Transcription turns audio and video into searchable, editable transcripts for legal and other professional work. It can detect speakers, add timestamps, create AI summaries, translate, and export transcripts as PDF, DOCX, TXT, SRT, or VTT. Its Legal preset retains terminology and role references, along with clearly spoken fillers, hesitations, repetitions, and false starts. Users can provide up to 100 case-specific names or terms per file to guide spelling, and label speakers with roles such as Counsel, Witness, or Judge. Uploads can be as large as 5 GB. Lawyers, paralegals, and court reporters are among the intended legal users for depositions, hearings, witness interviews, and client meetings. A free plan includes 5 minutes per month; Premium is $14.99 per month with 120 minutes per month. The MCP connector works with Claude and ChatGPT on every plan, and Google Drive Cloud Sync can transcribe files added to selected folders. Data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest with AES-256; the security program is SOC 2-aligned, not certified. Transcripts are working drafts, not certified court records.