Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition (cohere.com) AI

Cohere has released Transcribe, an open-source, conformer-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) model trained to minimize word error rate while remaining production-ready. The 2B-parameter model supports 14 languages and is reported to rank #1 on Hugging Face’s Open ASR Leaderboard for English accuracy (5.42% average WER), with similar gains claimed in human evaluations. Cohere says it also delivers strong throughput and is available for local use, via a free API for experimentation, or through its Model Vault for managed, low-latency deployment.