AudioBench - IMDA Part 5 ASR WER: leaderboard

AudioBench IMDA Part 5 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
1Whisper Large-v321.44#1271
2Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct22.8#906
3Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct27.86#880
4Qwen-Audio-Chat30.17#1244
5SALMONN-7B34.87#1293
6SeaLLMs-Audio-7B58.12#1018

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

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