AEQ-Bench - Naturalness: leaderboard
Metric: Naturalness (1-4; how human-like and conversational the text response is, from analysis only (1) to human-like chatting (4), rated by a GPT-5-mini judge with manual checking; mean over the Meld, GigaSpeech and EmoV-DB subsets, 1,885 instances). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around November 2026. 9 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2.5-Omni-7B | 3.89 |
| 2 | Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct | 3.77 |
| 3 | SALMONN-7B | 3.24 |
| 4 | Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct | 2.82 |
| 5 | Qwen-Audio-Chat | 2.37 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=aeq-bench-naturalness · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-26.