Bertin IT
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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.
Bertin IT MediaSpeech — French defence and intelligence multilingual transcription suite.
Best for multilingual open-source intelligence (OSINT) and broadcast monitoring for French government customers. Pricing: enterprise · contact sales.
What it is
Bertin IT is part of the Bertin Group, a French defence-and-industry conglomerate. Its MediaSpeech and MediaCentric products combine multilingual ASR with media-monitoring and OSINT workflows for intelligence agencies, defence ministries, and large media monitors. Sold via direct relationships with restricted-access procurement processes. Best fit when the buyer is multilingual open-source intelligence (osint) and broadcast monitoring for french government customers. The honest caveat: government / defence customer base; restricted access for general saas buyers. Procurement is via direct sales rather than a developer signup, so plan for a discovery call and a written proposal before the first transcript runs.
Watch out for: Government / defence customer base; restricted access for general SaaS buyers.
Install / use
bertin-it.com — contact sales
What people actually do with Bertin IT-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.
Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Bertin IT vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Bertin IT | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | On-premise, Linux, Windows | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Bertin IT
How much does Bertin IT cost?
Bertin IT does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.
Does Bertin IT work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Bertin IT runs on On-premise, Linux and Windows.
How do I get started with Bertin IT?
There is nothing to install — Bertin IT is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Bertin IT?
Government / defence customer base; restricted access for general SaaS buyers.
Who is Bertin IT best for?
Multilingual open-source intelligence (OSINT) and broadcast monitoring for French government customers.
Is Bertin IT open source?
No. Bertin IT 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.
Can I use Bertin IT in the browser?
No — Bertin IT is a On-premise, Linux and Windows application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.
What kind of tool is Bertin IT?
In this directory Bertin IT is filed under regional europe, enterprise, government as a product.
What are the alternatives to Bertin IT?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/bertin-france-alternatives comparing Bertin IT with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Bertin IT-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 Bertin IT?
Bertin IT 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 Bertin IT?
$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 Bertin IT 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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