cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026
by CohereLabs
Dialect-aware Arabic ASR with Arabic-English code-switching
CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026mixpeek://transcription@v1/cohere_transcribe_arabic_v1Overview
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
Benchmarks
| Dataset | Metric | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (avg) | WER | 25.87% | Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card |
| Common Voice (Arabic) | WER | 5.82% | Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card |
| MGB-2 (broadcast) | WER | 15.54% | Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card |
| MASC (clean) | WER | 19.60% | Cohere Labs, 2026: Model Card |
Explore on Mixpeek
Compare alternatives in this category
Hand-picked tools & platforms compared
Deep-dive technical guide
See how Mixpeek runs models as extractors
Store & search embeddings at scale
Usage-based pricing for pipelines
Compare models, APIs & infrastructure
Specification
Research Paper
Cohere Transcribe Arabic Model Card
arxiv.orgBuild a pipeline with cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026
Add this model to a processing pipeline alongside other extractors. Combine with retrieval stages for end-to-end search.
Run it on your own data, free