Is Cohere Transcribe Down?

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Last editorial review: 2026-05-20

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Known issues we've tracked

OWNERSHIP-CHANGE WATCH (2026-04-24): Cohere announced it is 'joining forces' with Aleph Alpha. Vendor blog (cohere.com/blog/cohere-alephalpha-join-forces) frames this as a merger / strategic combination rather than a clean acquisition, backed by Schwarz Group as lead investor with EUR 500M (USD 600M) Series E structured financing. STACKIT (Schwarz Digits' sovereign cloud) will serve as the 'technical backbone of this transatlantic AI initiative', targeting regulated sectors (public sector, finance, defense, energy, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare). Effective date / closing date not specified; deal announced as planned/pending. No immediate product or pricing changes for Cohere Transcribe customers, but a future combined-entity roadmap may reshape model lineup, support guarantees, and pricing -- worth tracking before any new long-term Cohere Model Vault commitment.
2026-04-24•Cohere blog: Cohere and Aleph Alpha join forces (cohere.com/blog/cohere-alephalpha-join-forces), TechCrunch, CNBC
No speaker diarization or word-level timestamps at launch. If your product needs multi-speaker separation (call centers, meetings) you'll need to add a diarization model on top or choose Grok STT / Deepgram / AssemblyAI
2026-03•Cohere Hugging Face blog
Model 'eagerly' transcribes non-speech audio -- prepend a VAD or noise gate for production use to avoid hallucinations on floor noise
2026-03•Cohere Labs limitations note
Only 14 languages supported -- narrower than Whisper Large v3 (99 languages) or Grok STT (25+). For rare-language workloads, open-source Whisper or proprietary APIs still win
2026-03•Cohere Labs model card

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Cohere Transcribe is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

A

GPT-Live (ChatGPT Voice)

8.6

OpenAI's full-duplex voice models (launched 2026-07-08) now powering ChatGPT Voice -- listens and speaks at the same time, backchannels naturally, and delegates hard questions to GPT-5.5 in the background while keeping the conversation going. GPT-Live-1 for paid tiers, GPT-Live-1 mini for Free

A

ElevenLabs

8.5

Best-in-class AI voice generation -- now includes 11.ai (MCP-based voice assistant), Eleven v3 expressive speech, and IBM watsonx partnership. $500M raise at $11B valuation (Feb 2026)

A

Descript

8.5

Edit audio and video by editing text -- the 'Google Docs of media editing' actually lives up to the hype

A

Grok Speech (STT + TTS APIs)

8.1

xAI's standalone voice APIs -- launched 2026-04-17. Built on the stack that powers Grok Voice, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink customer support. $0.10/hr STT batch, $4.20 per 1M characters TTS, 25+ languages. Now 26 flagship TTS voices (21 new added 2026-07-06), custom voice cloning from ~1 min of audio, and a no-code Grok Voice Agent Builder

B

Microsoft MAI-Voice-2

7.3

Microsoft's in-house expressive TTS model -- MAI-Voice-2 launched 2026-06-02 at Build: 15 languages (up from English-only), granular emotion-tag control, zero-shot voice cloning from a 5-60s clip, and preferred over MAI-Voice-1 72% of the time. In speaker-similarity tests its speech is 'indistinguishable' from real recordings. On Azure Foundry + integrated into VS Code and Dynamics 365 Contact Center; lower-cost MAI-Voice-2-Flash coming. Original MAI-Voice-1 shipped 2026-04-02

About Cohere Transcribe

Tier A (8.0/10). Cohere's first audio model -- launched 2026-03-26 under Apache 2.0, 2B parameters, #1 on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (5.42 avg WER), 14 enterprise-critical languages. Free API with rate limits; Model Vault for production

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