March 30, 2026

Cohere's open-weight ASR model hits 5.4% word error rate — low enough to replace speech APIs in production pipelines

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Enterprises building voice-enabled workflows have had limited options for production-grade transcription: closed APIs with data residency risks, or open models that trade accuracy for deployability. Cohere's new open-weight ASR model, Transcribe...