Skip to content

cohere_asr.md

Latest commit

 

History

History
65 lines (50 loc) · 2.52 KB

cohere_asr.md

File metadata and controls

65 lines (50 loc) · 2.52 KB
Raw

Cohere Transcribe

Cohere Transcribe is a multilingual speech recognition model released under Apache-2.0.

Field Value
Family cohere_asr
Task asr
Mode offline
Output Transcript text
Long-form audio Quiet-energy chunks, up to 35 seconds each
Languages English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean

Install

python3 tools/model_manager_v2.py install cohere_transcribe_bf16

For a smaller download, install cohere_transcribe_q8_0 or cohere_transcribe_q4_0 instead and use the corresponding -q8_0.gguf or -q4_0.gguf filename below. Each GGUF includes the configuration and tokenizer; no conversion is needed.

CLI

audiocpp_cli --task asr --family cohere_asr \
  --model models/Cohere-Transcribe-GGUF/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-bf16.gguf \
  --backend cuda --audio speech.wav \
  --request-option language=en --text-out transcript.txt --log

Long recordings are split automatically at quiet points. Use --backend cpu --threads 8 for CPU inference or --backend vulkan for Vulkan.

To transcribe French without punctuation and capitalization:

audiocpp_cli --task asr --family cohere_asr \
  --model models/Cohere-Transcribe-GGUF/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-bf16.gguf \
  --backend cuda --audio french.wav \
  --request-option language=fr --request-option punc=false \
  --text-out transcript.txt --log

Request Options (use with --request-option)

Option Default Meaning
language en en, fr, de, es, it, pt, nl, pl, el, ar, ja, zh, vi, or ko.
punc true Request punctuation and capitalization together. Legacy pnc remains accepted.
audio_chunk_mode auto auto and quiet_energy use quiet boundaries; fixed uses equal-length chunks; none requires at most 35 seconds.
audio_chunk_duration_sec 35 Maximum audio chunk length, from 0.04 to 35 seconds.
max_tokens 256 Maximum generated tokens per chunk, up to 1014. Increase if generation reaches the limit before EOS.

Session Options (use with --session-option)

Option Default Meaning
cohere_asr.weight_type native Weight storage type override; native keeps the precision stored in the model file.

Audio chunks must contain at least 20 ms. Translation, diarization, timestamps, and live audio streaming are not supported.