Contendeo vs Spoken

In-depth architectural comparison of the Contendeo and Spoken MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Contendeo when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Speech-to-Text domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: quick_transcribe, deep_analyze, clip_context.

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Choose Spoken when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Speech-to-Text domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Paid Service).
• You have access to required keys: SPOKEN_API_KEY.
• Primary tools included: Returns transcripts with real speaker names, not generic labels, Outputs clean Markdown with timestamps for easy parsing, Supports search by text query or Spotify/YouTube URL.

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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Contendeo Speech-to-Text	Spoken spokenmd Speech-to-Text
Summary	Multimodal video analysis MCP — transcription, vision, and OCR for any video URL.	Fetch published podcast transcripts as clean Markdown with real speaker names (not "Speaker 1") via the Spoken API. Search episodes, get transcripts, check credit balance.
Category & Scope	Speech-to-Text

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contendeo": {
      "url": "https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-Compatible-00FF41?style=flat-square"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spokenmd-spoken": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "spoken-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SPOKEN_API_KEY": "YOUR_SPOKEN_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

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