Cohere has released the cohere-transcribe-03-2026, a 2B-parameter open-source speech recognition model available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. This model supports 14 critical languages and achieves superior accuracy and efficiency, boasting an offline throughput three times higher than competitors of similar size. It ranks first on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard for English and performs comparably across the other supported languages. Designed for production use, the model integrates with vLLM for efficient serving and features a robust multilingual tokenizer and optimized data mix, trained on 0.5M hours of audio transcript pairs. Cohere-transcribe aims to set a new standard in speech recognition technology.
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Cohere Launches Open-Source 2B Parameter Speech Recognition Model
Hacker News· pwr1· Sunday, May 3, 2026
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