Philips SpeechLive vs Superwhisper

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.

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.