رقيم · raqeem
The easy way to use Cohere's open Arabic speech-recognition model from Python.
raqeem wraps
CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026
— the most accurate open-source Arabic ASR model (dialects + Arabic/English
code-switching), Apache-2.0.
It is a compiled Rust extension, not a pure-Python wrapper: no torch, no model
weights, no subprocess. Inference is delegated to an endpoint you choose — Cohere's
hosted API, or your own vLLM.
pip install raqeem
import raqeem
# Cohere hosted API (reads $COHERE_API_KEY)
t = raqeem.transcribe("voice_note.ogg", lang="ar")
print(t.text) # verbatim, for humans
print(t.text_normalized) # Arabic-folded, for parsing
print(t.to_dict())
# your own vLLM — the Cohere key is never sent to a self-hosted endpoint
t = raqeem.transcribe(
"clip.wav",
provider="openai",
endpoint="http://localhost:8000/v1/audio/transcriptions",
)
# the Arabic normalizer on its own
raqeem.normalize_ar("الطماطم بـ ١٢٫٥ جنيه") # 'الطماطم ب 12.5 جنيه'
text_normalized folds alef/hamza, taa-marbuta, strips tatweel and diacritics, and
converts Arabic-Indic and Persian digits to ASCII — note ١٢٫٥ becomes 12.5, one
number rather than two, which matters if anything downstream parses prices or quantities.
Failures raise raqeem.TranscriptionError; a bad provider or a missing key/endpoint
raises ValueError.
Full docs, the CLI, and the roadmap (subtitles, diarization, more bindings): https://github.com/SufficientDaikon/raqeem
All model accuracy credit belongs to Cohere Labs — this package is the ergonomics. Apache-2.0.
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