Yitu 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.
Yitu Tech speech recognition — Mandarin, dialects, and far-field microphone arrays.
Best for on-premise Mandarin transcription for finance, telecom, and government customers in mainland China. Pricing: enterprise · contact sales.
What it is
Yitu Tech is a Chinese AI vendor better known for computer vision but maintains a speech division that competes with iFlyTek and Tencent for on-premise enterprise deals. The product targets banks, telcos, and public-sector buyers who require speech recognition to run inside their own data centre with no outbound traffic. Acquisition is via direct sales rather than a developer signup. Best fit when the buyer is on-premise mandarin transcription for finance, telecom, and government customers in mainland china. The honest caveat: sales process is in chinese; no self-serve developer console. 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: Sales process is in Chinese; no self-serve developer console.
Install / use
yitutech.com — contact sales for licensing
What people actually do with Yitu Speech-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 | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Yitu Speech vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Yitu Speech | 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, Web | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Yitu Speech
How much does Yitu Speech cost?
Yitu Speech 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 Yitu Speech work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Yitu Speech runs on On-premise and Web. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond On-premise and Web.
How do I get started with Yitu Speech?
There is nothing to install — Yitu Speech is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Yitu Speech?
Sales process is in Chinese; no self-serve developer console.
Who is Yitu Speech best for?
On-premise Mandarin transcription for finance, telecom, and government customers in mainland China.
Is Yitu Speech open source?
No. Yitu Speech is a proprietary product from Yitu Technology. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Yitu Speech?
Yitu Speech is made by Yitu Technology.
What kind of tool is Yitu Speech?
In this directory Yitu Speech is filed under regional asia, enterprise as a product.
What are the alternatives to Yitu Speech?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/yitu-speech-alternatives comparing Yitu Speech with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Yitu Speech-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 Yitu Speech?
Yitu Speech 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 Yitu Speech?
$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 Yitu Speech 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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