# 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 Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Voice Dictation - **Made by:** Speech Processing Solutions - **Website:** https://www.speechlive.com/us/ - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you buy for yourself: every plan is per user, billed yearly, excluding tax. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $21.90 per 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 | $47.80 per 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 | $76.80 per 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 | $103.00 per user / month, billed annually, excl. tax | Workflow plus unlimited AI-generated clinical notes from consultations, with specialty templates. | Read from https://www.speechlive.com/us/pricing-legal/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Philips SpeechLive before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Introductory 2026 price on the AI Assistant plans** (Other savings): 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. Source: https://www.speechlive.com/us/pricing-legal/ ## 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. ## Good for - Law firms that dictate documents and use typists - Clinics that want AI-drafted consultation notes - Teams already using Philips dictation hardware ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: D.** Workflow 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A two-week free trial with all Enterprise features and no credit card, for up to 10 users and 200 minutes each. No free plan. - **Features: B.** Dictation workflow, speech recognition at the cursor, AI drafts, clinical notes and hardware support. Nothing in the listing is missing from the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It has accounts, hardware and a workflow to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and a browser extension, with Philips SpeechMike and its device connector. No API or wider integration list. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among voice dictation apps - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/voice-dictation ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Clinical notes: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Dictation that types into any app on your computer. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Philips SpeechMike, Philips Device Connector **Tags:** Dictation, Transcription, AI features, Clinical notes ## Alternatives - [Dragon Professional](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dragon-professional): Windows speech recognition for dictation and voice commands. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dragon-professional-vs-philips-speechlive) - [Braina](https://toolgpa.com/tools/braina): Voice assistant and dictation software for Windows and macOS. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/braina-vs-philips-speechlive) - [Speechnotes](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speechnotes): Free online dictation notepad with a voice-typing extension. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/philips-speechlive-vs-speechnotes) - [Wispr Flow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wispr-flow): Voice dictation that cleans up your speech in any app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/philips-speechlive-vs-wispr-flow) - [Talon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/talon): Hands-free computer control by voice, eye tracking and noises. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/philips-speechlive-vs-talon) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.speechlive.com/us/pricing-legal/ - https://www.speechlive.com/us/pricing-professional/ - https://www.speechlive.com/us/pricing-healthcare/ - https://www.speechlive.com/us/downloads/ - https://www.speechlive.com/us/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/philips-speechlive Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).