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Open Source·Jul 7·all news from July 7, 2026

Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, a 2-billion-parameter open-source model designed to improve speech recognition for Arabic dialects and bilingual code-switching. Available under an Apache 2.0 license, the model aims to address common transcription challenges where existing tools often struggle with regional variations and mixed-language speech.

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