Cohere Transcribe

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Cohere
2B-parameter open-source ASR model. Topped the HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.42 average WER. Supports 14 languages. Apache 2.0.

Cohere Transcribe Arabic (July 7, 2026): an open-weights Arabic variant (Apache-2.0) built on the 2B base, reporting WER 25.87 — ahead of OmniASR-LLM-7B and Whisper Large V3 — with 11K+ downloads in its first week.

Transcribe Arabic (HF)Announcement (TechCrunch)HuggingFaceBlog Post (HuggingFace)

Model Details

Architecture DENSE
Parameters 2B
audioopen-weight