Philips SpeechLive

by Philips Speech

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Cloud dictation and transcription workflow for legal and corporate dictation.

Web, iOS, Android, Windows  ·  from ~$15/mo per seat

TL;DR

Best for law firms and corporate teams using Philips dictation hardware wanting a cloud workflow. Pricing: from ~$15/mo per seat.

Category
Products
Pricing
from ~$15/mo per seat
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android, Windows

What it is

Philips SpeechLive is the cloud dictation, transcription, and workflow product paired with Philips SpeechMike and PocketMemo hardware. Strong in legal dictation.

Best for: Law firms and corporate teams using Philips dictation hardware wanting a cloud workflow.
Watch out for: Tied to Philips' dictation ecosystem.

Install / use

speechlive.com — per-seat subscription

What people actually do with Philips SpeechLive-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Google DriveMake.comZapiern8nZoomSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported10
HIPAA eligibleYes

Philips SpeechLive vs Whipscribe

FeaturePhilips SpeechLiveWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages1099
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, WindowsWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Philips SpeechLive

Frequently asked about Philips SpeechLive

How much does Philips SpeechLive cost?

Philips SpeechLive is a paid product — published pricing: from ~$15/mo per seat. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Does Philips SpeechLive work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Philips SpeechLive runs on Web, iOS, Android and Windows.

How do I get started with Philips SpeechLive?

There is nothing to install — Philips SpeechLive is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

How many languages does Philips SpeechLive support?

Philips SpeechLive lists 10 languages.

What are the limitations of Philips SpeechLive?

Tied to Philips' dictation ecosystem.

Who is Philips SpeechLive best for?

Law firms and corporate teams using Philips dictation hardware wanting a cloud workflow.

Is Philips SpeechLive open source?

No. Philips SpeechLive is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

What kind of tool is Philips SpeechLive?

In this directory Philips SpeechLive is filed under product as a product.

What are the alternatives to Philips SpeechLive?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/philips-speechlive-alternatives comparing Philips SpeechLive with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Philips SpeechLive-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Philips SpeechLive?

Philips SpeechLive is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Philips SpeechLive?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Philips SpeechLive category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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