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Cohere Transcribe Arabic

Cohere · 2026 · Speech Recognition · Canada

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Overview

2B-parameter Apache 2.0 Arabic speech-to-text: leads the Hugging Face Arabic ASR leaderboard at 25.87 WER (~11 points better than Whisper...

Details

Vendor
Cohere
Type
Speech Recognition
Release year
2026
Jurisdiction
Canada
CEO
Aidan Gomez
Key staffers
Aidan Gomez (CEO & Co-Founder, original Transformer co-author), Ivan Zhang (Co-Founder)
Deployment
Open weights (Hugging Face; Apache 2.0); day-0 mlx-audio support
Open source
Yes
Free tier
Yes
Stock status
Private ($5.5B valuation)
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Known safety issues

None publicly documented

AIDb Rating

7/10

AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 7/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 5/10 → 7.45

Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗

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