AudioBench - TED-LIUM 3 WER: leaderboard

AudioBench TED-LIUM 3 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 Instruct2.85#906
2Whisper Large-v33.76#1271
3Qwen-Audio-Chat4.05#1244
4SALMONN-7B4.6#1293
5SeaLLMs-Audio-7B4.83#1018
6Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct6.11#880

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=audiobench-ted-lium-3-wer · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.