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Blabb vs Philips SpeechLive
An honest comparison

Philips SpeechLive is the enterprise-grade cloud dictation platform from Philips Speech — built for teams where authors dictate and typists transcribe, hosted on Microsoft Azure, paired with SpeechMike hardware. Blabb is built for the solo dictator who wants clean text typed at the cursor, on the PC. As of August 2026 — check Philips SpeechLive's current pricing and plans before deciding.

Philips SpeechLive

FROM ~$17/USER/MO

Blabb

ONE COFFEE / MONTH

Where your audio goes
Philips SpeechLive's cloud on Microsoft Azure — recordings and transcripts stored there
✓This PC — audio and transcripts are never uploaded
Built for
Team dictation workflows — authors dictate, typists transcribe, jobs route automatically
Solo dictation — clean text typed straight at your cursor
Price
From $16.90/user/month (Basic); speech recognition add-on +$34.90/user/month on Pro/Enterprise
✓Blabb Free: 2,000 words a day, no card. Unlimited: USD $4.99/mo, USD $49.99/yr, or $99 once — 14-day free trial
Offline
No — it's a cloud platform hosted on Azure
✓Dictation runs on-device; the subscription re-checks online at least every 30 days‡
Locked-down RDP, Citrix, VDI
Not documented as a specific supported scenario
✓Types straight in†
Platforms
✓Browser (Chrome/Edge), iOS, Android apps, Philips SpeechMike & SpeechOne hardware
✕Windows 11 (x64) only — and deeply
AI cleanup (fillers, grammar)
AI Assistant refines transcripts — bundled with the speech recognition add-on, not the base plan
✓Removes fillers, fixes grammar, converts spoken numbers to digits — built in, six styles
Team workflow & typist routing
✓Yes — job assignment to users/teams, role-based access, SSO, and a public API
✕No — Blabb is a solo tool, by design
Specialist vocabulary
Marketed to legal, healthcare, finance — no distinct medical/legal vocabulary product
Medical (48,133 terms) and Legal (13,004 terms) vocabulary plans — on-device, USD $9.99/mo each, not included with standard Blabb
Self-correction while talking
✓Deferred correction against the original audio reference
✓Spoken retractions ("scratch that", "make that", "correction") drop the false start automatically
History
Cloud-stored dictations with a 30-day restore window
✓Encrypted local history — your original words beside the final text, copy or delete any entry

† NOT INTO ELEVATED/ADMIN WINDOWS — A WINDOWS LIMIT, NOT BLABB'S. ‡ AN ALREADY-VERIFIED SUBSCRIPTION KEEPS DICTATING FOR 30 DAYS WITHOUT REACHING THE LICENCE SERVER. FEATURE AND PRICING CLAIMS FOR PHILIPS SPEECHLIVE SOURCED FROM ITS OWN PUBLIC SITE, AUGUST 2026 — VERIFY CURRENT DETAILS BEFORE DECIDING.

01The honest read

Team cloud platform, or solo on-device tool

Choose Philips SpeechLive if…

You run a dictation workflow with authors and typists — a law firm, a medical practice, or any team where recordings get routed, transcribed, and tracked. SpeechLive's job routing, role-based access, single sign-on, public API, a 24-hour human transcription service, and SpeechMike/SpeechOne hardware support are genuinely useful enterprise features Blabb simply doesn't have. If your content belongs in a cloud workspace and you buy software by the user, that's its home turf.

Choose Blabb if…

You're a solo dictator who wants clean text at the cursor, not a team workspace. Your words can't leave your machine — NDA work, client data, health information — or your IT policy makes Azure-hosted dictation a non-starter. There's no privacy setting to remember, because there's no transcription server to send your words to. And if you work in a locked-down Citrix/RDP/VDI session, Blabb types where cloud tools don't reach.

Why the price is so different

SpeechLive is priced per user, per month, for teams — Basic starts around $16.90/user/month (billed annually), Pro around $21.90/user/month, and the speech recognition add-on with AI Assistant is a further +$34.90/user/month on Pro or Enterprise only. Blabb is one licence for one PC — USD $4.99/month or USD $99 once — with the models included in the download. Different buyers, different maths: SpeechLive bills the team, Blabb bills the individual.

Solo dictation, on your PC. No per-user bill.

Two weeks free, models included in the download.

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