There are four people who speak in the Bhagavad Gita: Krishna, Arjuna, Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra. Of the 700 shlokas, 574 are spoken by Krishna, perfectly understandable; eighty-four shlokas are spoken by Arjuna and forty-one shlokas are spoken by Sanjaya. That is a total of 699. An often unnoticed, but obvious, fact is that Dhritarashtra speaks only one shloka in the entire Bhagavad Gita.
