cohere-transcribe-03-2026
by CohereLabs
#1 on Open ASR Leaderboard with 14-language support
CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026mixpeek://transcription@v1/cohere_transcribe_03_v1Overview
Cohere Transcribe is a 2B-parameter automatic speech recognition model that ranks #1 on the Open ASR Leaderboard for English. Trained on 500K hours of audio data, it delivers 3x faster real-time processing compared to models of similar accuracy. The model supports 14 languages with strong multilingual performance.
For multimodal search pipelines, accurate transcription is foundational -- every word in the transcript becomes searchable text. Higher transcription accuracy directly translates to better full-text search over audio and video content.
Architecture
Encoder-decoder architecture optimized for streaming and batch ASR. 2B parameters trained on 500K hours of diverse audio. Supports NeMo framework for enterprise deployment.
Mixpeek SDK Integration
// No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
// GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so cohere-transcribe-03-2026 runs
// on your side and the output is upserted through POST
// /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
// path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
// accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
const res = await fetch(
"https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
{
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
collection_id: "col_your_collection",
documents: [
{
document_id: "asset-00412",
// The model produces text, so it lands in payload. Give the
// collection a text vector index and embed that text to make it
// searchable rather than only filterable.
payload: { extracted_text: modelOutput, source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412" },
vectors: { "text-embedding": embeddingOfModelOutput },
},
],
}),
},
);
// Managed alternative, if this exact model is not the requirement:
// universal_extractor@v1 runs google/gemini-embedding-2
// (3072-d) over a bucket, with no inference of your own.Capabilities
- #1 on Open ASR Leaderboard (English)
- 14 language support with strong multilingual accuracy
- 3x faster than comparable accuracy models
- Apache-2.0 license for commercial use
- NeMo framework support for enterprise deployment
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Specification
Research Paper
Cohere Transcribe
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