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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Cohere deployed Transcribe, an open-source automatic speech recognition model that converts spoken audio into text across 14 languages. It is available as a free API, a downloadable open-source model, and as a managed enterprise service through Cohere's Model Vault platform.
Details
Cohere Transcribe (released March 26, 2026) is a 2-billion-parameter encoder-decoder model that takes audio input and outputs text transcripts. It supports 14 languages including English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, and claims the lowest word error rate on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard at 5.42% as of its launch date. Cohere plans to integrate Transcribe into its North enterprise agent platform to add voice capabilities to automated workflows. The model is available for download on Hugging Face under an open-source license, via the Cohere API for free up to rate limits, and through Model Vault for production deployments.
Products affected
Cohere TranscribeNorthModel Vault
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Cohere: Cohere deployed Transcribe, an open-source automatic speech recognition model that converts spoken audio into text across 14 languages. It is available as a free API, a downloadable open-source model, and as a managed enterprise service through Cohere's Model Vault platform (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c5d0f19a-e60d-4f8f-a23b-330064ac3d9b. Accessed October 5, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c5d0f19a-e60d-4f8f-a23b-330064ac3d9b
- Data as of
- May 11, 2026
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Other practices by Cohere
ProductivityCohere offers North, an enterprise platform that lets companies build and deploy AI agents to automate complex workflows across business functions such as HR, finance, customer support, and IT. North can run entirely on a company's own servers or in a private cloud, so sensitive data never leaves the organization.OtherCohere's nonprofit research lab, Cohere Labs, offers the Aya family of open-source multilingual language models designed to expand AI access to underrepresented languages. The Aya models cover up to 101 languages and are freely available for research, but not permitted for commercial use.ProductivityCohere offers Command A Translate, a large language model built specifically for translating enterprise documents across 23 business languages. It is available through Cohere's API and as a private deployment so that sensitive documents stay within an organization's own infrastructure.
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