Letterly vs Philips SpeechLive

Letterly turns speech into text for messages, emails, notes, meeting summaries, journal entries, social posts, and other writing. Users can dictate inside apps such as Gmail, Slack, and Notion, or upload audio and video for transcription. Recordings can run up to 90 minutes, and speech is automatically detected across more than 90 languages, including when languages change mid-sentence. Users can select ready-made rewrite styles or create their own. Letterly can record offline, and Zapier and webhooks can send notes to other apps. Its MCP connects notes with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, Gemini CLI, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Claude Code. Letterly says user words are not used to train AI; its DPA specifies encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and regular security testing. Users can delete recordings and transcriptions through the app. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. In-app PRO prices include $19.99 a month, $89.99 a year, and $249.99, paid once.

Philips SpeechLive captures and manages dictations, routing recordings to assistants, teams, or speech recognition. Users can record in a browser or mobile app, upload recordings, assign tasks, track job status, and use human transcription services. AI Assistants can turn audio and supporting files such as PDFs and images into draft documents using templates and natural-language editing. The API has an OpenAPI interface and real-time webhooks; listed partners include Actionstep, Clio, iManage, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft AI, NetDocuments, and Nuance. SpeechLive says dictations are protected with AES 256-bit encryption and offers email-based MFA and Microsoft credential single sign-on. It says AI processing data is deleted after processing and not used to train AI models. Dictations and attachments are hosted on Microsoft Azure, stored regionally, and can be restored by administrators for up to 30 days after accidental deletion. The paid service has no free plan. Basic costs $12.90 a month, billed annually, excluding tax; a 14-day trial is also available for up to 10 users and 200 speech-recognition minutes per user, without a credit card.