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        "value": "Apache 2.0, named in the metadata and on the card's Terms of Use, linked to apache.org from Cohere's docs. No LICENSE file is in the file list. The gate asks a signed-in user to share Hugging Face account information; its exact wording is shown only after login"
      },
      {
        "label": "Runtimes",
        "value": "Hugging Face Transformers from v5.4.0 (CohereAsrForConditionalGeneration, native; the repository's remote code is also wired through auto_map) and vLLM (cohere_asr in the v0.32.0 release; the card pins 0.19.0 and serves with --trust-remote-code). Not in llama.cpp, SGLang, Ollama or LM Studio. Community ports in mlx-audio, Rust, transformers.js and Handy's transcribe.cpp (GGUF on ggml)"
      },
      {
        "label": "Input and output",
        "value": "Audio resampled to 16 kHz mono, a required language code and an optional punctuation flag (punctuation=False gives lower-cased text without punctuation). Long audio is chunked by the feature extractor and reassembled with audio_chunk_index. Several files can go in one batch. Output is text only; the card says there are no timestamps or speaker diarisation. vLLM serves an OpenAI-style /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint"
      },
      {
        "label": "Recommended settings",
        "value": "max_new_tokens 256 per chunk in the card's examples. Put a noise gate or voice activity detection in front of it, since the card says it transcribes non-speech sounds and can hallucinate on low-volume noise. Transformers for offline use, vLLM for serving"
      },
      {
        "label": "Hardware",
        "value": "Not stated on the card. Testing was with torch 2.10.0. The BF16 files are 4.13 GB, about 5 GB with a fifth added"
      },
      {
        "label": "Training data",
        "value": "0.5M hours of curated audio-transcript pairs, augmented with synthetic data after error analysis, filtered by an internal cleaning pipeline, balanced by proprietary methods and checked for test-train overlap, with noise augmentation at 0 to 30 dB SNR. Sources aren't named beyond open sets without punctuated references such as Multilingual LibriSpeech, and no cut-off is given"
      }
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    "provenance": {
      "legalEntity": "Cohere Inc.",
      "domain": "cohere.com",
      "domainRegistered": "2000-03-07",
      "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
      "terms": "",
      "privacy": "",
      "statusPage": "",
      "changelog": "https://docs.cohere.com/changelog/cohere-transcribe-03-2026",
      "securityTxt": "none",
      "checked": "2026-10-21",
      "notes": [
        "The card says Developed by Cohere and Cohere Labs. The files sit in the verified CohereLabs organisation, which cohere.com's Transcribe announcement links to. Legal entity and domain registration are carried from the cohere-chat listing (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored. Cohere's own API serves the model; no Cohere transcription API is listed here yet.",
        "The repository's commit history is behind the gate. Per-file last commits from the public file list show the weights from 25 March 2026, tokenizer fixes on 27 March, a modeling fix on 26 March, a configuration change on 28 April and card edits up to 7 October 2026.",
        "cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 21 October 2026. The cohere-chat listing records a responsible disclosure policy and bug bounty in Cohere's trust centre."
      ],
      "score": 73,
      "checks": [
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          "value": "Cohere Inc.",
          "points": 20,
          "max": 20,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Domain age",
          "value": "cohere.com, registered 2000-03-07 (26 years)",
          "points": 15,
          "max": 15,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain",
          "value": "no hosted endpoint",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 0,
          "state": "na"
        },
        {
          "check": "Terms of service",
          "value": "nothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in",
          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Privacy policy",
          "value": "nothing hosted, not scored",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 0,
          "state": "na"
        },
        {
          "check": "Status page",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
        },
        {
          "check": "Changelog",
          "value": "published",
          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
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        {
          "check": "security.txt",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
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    },
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