Philips SpeechLive review (2026): is it worth $21.90 a month per user, billed yearly?
Cloud dictation and speech recognition for legal and health teams
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Philips SpeechLive report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for professional dictation for legal and health work
Philips SpeechLive is a dictation and transcription service for professionals, with apps on desktop and phone and support for Philips microphones. It's priced per user at $21.90 a month and up, billed yearly, and typed transcripts cost extra per minute.
Who Philips SpeechLive is for
- Fits if you dictate legal or medical documents and use Philips hardware
- Works for teams that pass dictation to typists in a workflow
Who Philips SpeechLive is not for
- Pricey if you buy for yourself: every plan is per user, billed yearly, excluding tax
- Skip it if you want a free plan, as there isn't one after the two-week trial
- Watch out: the AI Assistant plans are $54 for 2026, then $76.80 from 2027
- Watch out: typed transcription is billed per minute from a prepaid balance, from $1.39 a minute
- Not for you if you have an Intel Mac, which uses a legacy version
Why Philips SpeechLive gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for moneyWorkflow is $21.90 a user a month on yearly billing, excluding tax, past the category's dearest-tenth line of $19.99. Legal and Health plans run from $47.80 to $103.
- CFree plan and trialA two-week free trial with all Enterprise features and no credit card, for up to 10 users and 200 minutes each. No free plan.
- BFeaturesDictation workflow, speech recognition at the cursor, AI drafts, clinical notes and hardware support. Nothing in the listing is missing from the core job.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. It has accounts, hardware and a workflow to set up.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and a browser extension, with Philips SpeechMike and its device connector. No API or wider integration list.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Philips SpeechLive's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Philips SpeechLive's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 2 of the 42 other voice dictation apps we grade, and level with 4.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 27 of 42) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $21.90 a month for each person, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 21 of the 21 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 43 voice dictation apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Philips SpeechLive’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 42, level with 6
- CFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 42, level with 13
- BFeaturesAbove 21 of 42, level with 18
- CEase of useAbove 2 of 42, level with 10
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 27 of 42, level with 14
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 32 voice dictation apps. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Philips SpeechLive, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Philips SpeechLive you would be making dictation that types into any app on your computer. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 36 of the 42 other voice dictation apps grade higher. It costs $262.80 a year.
What you could make
- Clinical notes: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Dictation that types into any app on your computer.
- Speech turned into text you can trust.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Philips SpeechLive’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Philips SpeechLive?
Philips SpeechLive is a subscription dictation service sold mainly to legal, healthcare and other professional teams. A base Workflow plan records and routes dictations, and higher plans add speech recognition at the cursor in desktop apps and AI-drafted documents or clinical notes. Prices below are the US ones.
Worth knowing
- No free plan; all prices are per user, billed annually, and exclude tax.
- The AI Assistant plans are shown at an introductory $54.00 for 2026, rising to $76.80 from 2027.
- The desktop app is listed for Windows and Apple Silicon Macs; Intel Macs use a legacy version.
- Typed transcription is billed per minute from a prepaid balance, from $1.39 per minute for English.
Key features
- Dictation workflow
- Authors record on a phone app, in a browser or by uploading a file, and the dictation can be assigned to a typist or team with task tracking.
- Speech recognition at the cursor
- The Direct plans use a desktop app that types into supported Windows and macOS applications and supports voice commands for navigation, editing and formatting.
- AI document drafts
- The AI Assistant plans turn dictation into structured documents from system or custom templates, and the draft can be edited with plain-language instructions.
- Clinical notes
- The Health AI Assistant plan generates clinical notes from consultations, with specialty templates.
- Human transcription service
- Typed transcripts can be bought from a prepaid balance, at $1.39 per minute for English with a 24-hour turnaround.
- Hardware support
- A Chrome or Edge extension and a native host app connect Philips SpeechMike microphones and foot controls to the web app.
Philips SpeechLive pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Philips SpeechLive is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $21.90 per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax.
- Starts at
- $21.90 per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Two-week free trial with all Enterprise features, no credit card, up to 10 users and 200 speech recognition minutes per user
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow | $21.90per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax | Records and routes dictations: mobile app and file upload, browser recorder, task assignment and tracking, and links to third-party software. |
| Legal Direct / Professional Direct | $47.80per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax | Workflow plus speech recognition at the cursor in supported desktop apps, with voice commands and custom vocabulary. Unlimited under fair use. |
| Legal / Professional AI Assistant | $76.80per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax, from 2027 | Direct plan plus unlimited AI-drafted documents from templates, natural-language editing, and PDFs or images as extra sources. The page shows an introductory $54.00 for 2026. |
| Health AI Assistant | $103.00per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax | Workflow plus unlimited AI-generated clinical notes from consultations, with specialty templates. |
Read from speechlive.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Philips SpeechLive before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Other savingsIntroductory 2026 price on the AI Assistant plans
The Legal and Professional AI Assistant bundles are listed at $54.00 per user per month, billed annually, for 2026, then $76.80 from 2027.
Stated on speechlive.com
Works with
- Philips SpeechMike
- Philips Device Connector
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Common questions
Does Philips SpeechLive have a Linux app?
No Linux app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Philips SpeechLive is listed for Web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
Is Philips SpeechLive open source?
Philips SpeechLive is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.