Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026)
Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) is a released vision model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
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- Teams evaluating vision
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- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
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- Family
- Cohere Transcribe
- Released
- 2026-07-07
- Parameters
- 2B
- Specialization
- speech-recognition
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Cohere Transcribe Arabic is Cohere's named 2B Arabic/English automatic speech-recognition model: an audio-in, text-out fine-tune of Cohere Transcribe for Arabic dialects and Arabic-English code-switching. It is not a general text-generation model.
Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) is an open-source model in the Cohere Transcribe family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and audio. Headline tracked benchmarks include Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (average WER) 25.9.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
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Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(1)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (average WER) | 25.9 | six-test-set average WER; leaderboard snapshot accessed 2026-07-13 | https://huggingface.co/spaces/elmresearchcenter/open_universal_arabic_asr_leaderboard |
Migration checks
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Frequently asked questions
When was Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) released?
Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) was released on 2026-07-07.
What benchmarks has Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) been tested on?
Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) has been evaluated on 1 benchmark, including Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (average WER).
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.