Meet Cohere Transcribe Arabic
Cohere, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Cohere releases Transcribe Arabic, an open-source speech recognition model it calls the most accurate for Arabic.
Cohere released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source speech recognition model designed specifically for Arabic speakers.
The model achieves superior accuracy versus competitors like Whisper, with a word error rate of 25.87 and human evaluators preferring it in 96% of tests against alternatives.
It is built to handle dialect variations, code-switching between Arabic and English, and professional terminology. The weights are freely available under Apache 2.0 licensing and accessible through the Cohere API and Model Vault.