AudioBench - IMDA Part 1 ASR WER: leaderboard

AudioBench IMDA Part 1 ASR 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
1Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct5.74#906
2Whisper Large-v36.84#1271
3Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct7.2#880
4SALMONN-7B9.26#1293
5Qwen-Audio-Chat10.55#1244
6SeaLLMs-Audio-7B17.81#1018

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

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