AudioBench - Earnings21 WER: leaderboard

AudioBench Earnings21 word error rate slice measuring automatic speech-recognition transcription quality, where lower scores indicate fewer errors.

Metric: WER (%) (lower is better). Source: github.com. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Whisper Large-v311.86#1271
2Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct15.92#906
3Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct18.87#880
4SALMONN-7B25.78#1293
5Qwen-Audio-Chat26.56#1244
6SeaLLMs-Audio-7B51.16#1018

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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