Cohere releases open-source "Transcribe Arabic" ASR model claiming best open-weight Arabic accuracy
Cohere published Transcribe Arabic, an open-source Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (Apache 2.0) based on its 2B ASR work. Cohere says the model achieves a 25.87 WER on the Hugging Face Arabic ASR leaderboard, outperforming Meta’s OmniASR-LLM-7B and OpenAI’s Whisper Large V3, and was preferred to Whisper in about 96% of human evaluation tests; weights are available on Hugging Face and via the Cohere API/Model Vault.