{"id":2382,"date":"2026-06-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:59:18","slug":"cohere-transcribe-5-speech-to-text-tests-en-es-fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/cohere-transcribe-5-speech-to-text-tests-en-es-fr\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohere Transcribe: 5 Speech-to-Text Tests (EN, ES, FR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cohere Transcribe stands out when multilingual speech tests need clean transcripts, stable punctuation, and fewer drops across English, Spanish, and French.<\/p>\n<h2>Cohere Transcribe: what stands out<\/h2>\n<h2>Model link<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/models\/coherelabs\/cohere-transcribe-03-2026\">coherelabs\/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 on Wiro<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Cover art (generated)<\/h2>\n<figure>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cohere-transcribe-cover-base.jpg\" alt=\"Dark gradient background with a microphone silhouette and subtle waveform lines\" \/><figcaption>Prompt: Minimal studio photo style cover background: a microphone silhouette on the right with soft bokeh lights and subtle waveform lines. Dark navy to black gradient. Lots of negative space on the left. No text.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What Cohere Transcribe does<\/h2>\n<p>Cohere Transcribe converts speech to text. The key input is the audio file plus the language setting (it does not claim to auto-detect language). The tests below include three short clips generated with text-to-speech plus one sample clip.<\/p>\n<h2>Test setup<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Transcribe model<\/td>\n<td>coherelabs\/cohere-transcribe-03-2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>maxNewTokens<\/td>\n<td>256<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Audio sources<\/td>\n<td>3 short TTS clips + 1 sample clip<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>5 transcription tests (with audio)<\/h2>\n<h3>1) English short clip (language = en)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cohere-transcribe-test-en.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected text (TTS input):<\/strong> This is a short test sentence for speech to text. It includes numbers like 42 and 3.14, and a name: Jordan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>This is a short test sentence for speech to text. It includes numbers like 42 and 314 and a name, Jordan.<\/pre>\n<h3>2) Same English clip (language = es)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cohere-transcribe-test-en.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>This is a short test sentence for speech to text. It includes numbers like 42 and 314 and a name, Jordan.<\/pre>\n<h3>3) Spanish short clip (language = es)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cohere-transcribe-test-es.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected text (TTS input):<\/strong> Hola, esta es una prueba corta de transcripcion. Incluye el numero cuarenta y dos y la fecha diecisiete de abril.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>Hola, esta es una prueba corta de transcripci\u00f3n. Incluye el n\u00famero 42 y la fecha 17 de abril.<\/pre>\n<h3>4) French short clip (language = fr)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cohere-transcribe-test-fr.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expected text (TTS input):<\/strong> Bonjour, ceci est un court test de transcription. Il contient le nombre quarante-deux et la date dix-sept avril.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>Bonjour. Ceci est un court test de transcription. Il contient le nombre 42 et la date 17 avril.<\/pre>\n<h3>5) Sample clip (language = en)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cohere-transcribe-sample-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>Finally, there are many small cats including loose pet cats that eat the far more numerous small prey like insects, rodents, lizards and birds.<\/pre>\n<h2>Quick takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Short clips transcribe cleanly, including punctuation in these samples.<\/li>\n<li>Numbers often normalize to digits (for example 42, 17).<\/li>\n<li>Decimal formatting can vary (3.14 became 314 in this run).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Try it<\/h2>\n<p>Run the model here: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiro.ai\/models\/coherelabs\/cohere-transcribe-03-2026\">coherelabs\/cohere-transcribe-03-2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cohere Transcribe stands out when multilingual speech tests need clean transcripts, stable punctuation, and fewer drops across English, Spanish, and French. 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