Cohere Releases Open-Source 2B Arabic Speech Recognition Model Transcribe Arabic

Cohere and Cohere Labs released Cohere Transcribe Arabic, an open-source 2B-parameter Arabic automatic speech recognition model under Apache 2.0.

It is optimized for Arabic, Arabic dialects, English, and Arabic-English code-switched speech, using a Conformer encoder-decoder architecture supported natively in Transformers.

The model's average WER of 25.87 and CER of 11.80 on the Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard, as of 07.07.2026, is reported in the source.