Cohere has launched Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, now available for download as open source.
The model, designed for real-world application, is intended to enhance AI-driven tasks such as meeting transcription and speech analytics to support customer support interactions, a press release stated.
“Our objective was straightforward: push the frontier of dedicated ASR model accuracy under practical conditions. The model was trained from scratch with a deliberate focus on minimizing word error rate (WER), while keeping production readiness top-of-mind. In other words, not just a research artifact, but a system designed for everyday use,” Cohere stated.
What Does Transcribe Do?
Transcribe supports 14 languages, including English, French and Chinese. The model ranks first for accuracy on Hugging Face’s Open ASR Leaderboard, outperforming other ASR models such as Whisper Large v3 and ElevenLabs Scribe v2, with a WER of just 5.42%.
“We’re genuinely impressed with what Cohere has built with …
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