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· today in ai · 2026-07-07
Cohere open-sources an Arabic speech model
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Transcribe Arabic scores 25.87 WER, beating Meta's OmniASR by 2.45 points and Whisper by 11, preferred over Whisper in 95.8% of blind tests.
Cohere released Transcribe Arabic on July 7, an open-source Arabic speech-recognition model under an Apache 2.0 license. Cohere reports a 25.87 word-error rate on the Hugging Face Arabic ASR leaderboard, beating Meta’s OmniASR by 2.45 points and OpenAI’s Whisper by 11, with native Arabic speakers preferring its output over Whisper’s in 95.8% of blind tests.
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- 01Meet Cohere Transcribe Arabiccohere.com · primary
Rami Steitieh