Cohere Transcribe Arabic

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Cohere Transcribe Arabic is a specialist speech-recognition model for Arabic dialects and Arabic–English code-switching.

Key specifications

Specification score
5.0
License
Apache 2.0
Parameters
2B

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Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Audio input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

AudioStreamingOpen weights

What is Cohere Transcribe Arabic?

Cohere Transcribe Arabic is a specialist speech-recognition model for Arabic dialects and Arabic–English code-switching.

Speech recognition, not speech generation

The publisher describes a 2B model focused on transcribing Arabic speech, including dialect variation and mixed Arabic–English speech. Its task is to return text from audio. This profile does not transfer speech-generation capabilities or general text-model context limits to the transcription checkpoint.

Use recordings that reflect the audience

Build a trial set covering the dialects, microphones and speaking situations your product serves. Include spontaneous speech, a formal passage, names, numbers and a speaker who switches language within a sentence. Compare the transcript with a human reference and inspect substitutions that could change meaning, especially names, amounts and negation.

A complete transcription workflow

Follow the publisher’s audio preprocessing and checkpoint instructions. Long recordings may need segmentation; preserve timing and enough overlap to avoid losing words at boundaries. Distinguish transcription from speaker diarization and translation unless a chosen pipeline explicitly provides those additional tasks. For subtitles, review punctuation, line breaks and timing separately from word accuracy.

Keep the exact checkpoint identifier in the deployment configuration even when it contains a version suffix. Download access and licence terms belong to the linked checkpoint, while hosted availability and billing depend on the selected service. Do not present a per-minute or token rate without a documented host. Evaluate your own recordings before choosing a transcription service from results obtained on a different dialect mix.

Sources

Publisher documentation · Publisher documentation

How to evaluate Cohere Transcribe Arabic

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Tasks and inputs

Cohere Transcribe Arabic is listed for Automatic speech recognition. It accepts audio and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

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Choosing a deployment

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