Fact · Speech recognition
5.42percent average WER
On the Open ASR Leaderboard's English short-form tests, Cohere Labs Transcribe had an average word error rate of 5.42 percent, and the paper's table marks it as open.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Cohere Labs Transcribe Yes 5.42 525 FastConformer”
Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation, Hugging Face and collaborators, arXiv, 2025, Table 3, short-form English.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Open column in the table is 'Yes' for this row, which the paper uses to mark open-source systems.
- What it does not show
- A snapshot from March 2026, averaged over the leaderboard's English datasets with normalized text. This row's license is not checked here.