Cohere releases open-weight Transcribe Arabic — dialect ASR that beats Whisper baselines
Cohere’s 2B open-weight Transcribe Arabic targets dialect and code-switching speech, with claims it beats Whisper baselines on hard Arabic ASR cases.
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