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

Cohere's open-weight ASR model Transcribe tops the Hugging Face leaderboard with a 5.42% word error rate, outperforming Whisper Large v3 and ElevenLabs Scribe v2, and runs on local GPU infrastructure ...
The Next Web

Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a free, offline-first iOS dictation app powered by Gemma. No subscription, no usage caps and it ...
Yahoo Finance

ASR GROUP® ANNOUNCES OPTIMIZATIONS OF U.S. OPERATIONAL NETWORK

The world's largest cane sugar refiner and marketer, owner of Domino® Sugar, is making major investments in its operations as part of its commitment to superior customer service and producing quality ...
Government Technology

GCOM Acquires ASR for AI, Tax Analytics and Student Software

GCOM, a software company selling a wide range of solutions to state and local government, has acquired an AI firm to expand into tax analytics, student success and federal work. The company, ASR ...