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    HFTranscriptionapache-2.0

    cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026

    by CohereLabs

    Dialect-aware Arabic ASR with Arabic-English code-switching

    53Kdl/month
    176likes
    2.1Bparams
    Identifiers
    Model ID
    CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026
    Feature URI
    mixpeek://transcription@v1/cohere_transcribe_arabic_v1

    Overview

    Cohere Transcribe Arabic is a 2B-parameter speech recognition model from Cohere Labs (July 2026) built specifically for Arabic, including regional dialects and Arabic-English code-switching, the two places general-purpose ASR models degrade hardest. On the Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard it averages 25.87% WER across dialect-heavy test sets, with 5.82% WER on Common Voice Arabic.

    On Mixpeek, it fills the Arabic gap in transcription pipelines: Arabic broadcast media, Gulf and Levantine dialect recordings, and mixed Arabic-English business audio become searchable text indexed alongside embeddings and faces. Pair it with voice-activity detection at ingest: the model transcribes non-speech sounds without it and does not emit timestamps or speaker labels on its own.

    Architecture

    Conformer-based encoder-decoder: a large Conformer encoder for acoustic representations with a lightweight Transformer decoder for token generation. Audio resampled to 16kHz. No built-in language detection, timestamps, or diarization. Apache 2.0 license.

    Mixpeek SDK Integration

    // No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
    // GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026 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

    • Arabic dialect coverage (Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, Maghrebi test sets)
    • Arabic-English code-switching
    • 5.82% WER on Common Voice Arabic; 15.54% WER on MGB-2 broadcast
    • 25.87% average WER on the Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard
    • Compact 2B parameters under Apache 2.0

    Use Cases on Mixpeek

    Arabic broadcast media: make news and talk-show archives searchable
    Regional dialect content: transcribe Gulf, Levantine, and Egyptian recordings
    Business audio: handle Arabic-English code-switched meetings and calls
    MENA media libraries: index Arabic speech next to visual and text features

    Benchmarks

    DatasetMetricScoreSource
    Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (avg)WER25.87%Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card
    Common Voice (Arabic)WER5.82%Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card
    MGB-2 (broadcast)WER15.54%Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card
    MASC (clean)WER19.60%Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card

    Specification

    FrameworkHF
    OrganizationCohereLabs
    FeatureTranscription
    Outputtext + timestamps
    Modalitiesvideo, audio
    RetrieverTranscript Search
    Parameters2.1B
    Licenseapache-2.0
    Downloads/mo53K
    Likes176

    Research Paper

    Cohere Transcribe Arabic Model Card

    arxiv.org

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