AudioBench - UKUSNews Short WER: leaderboard
AudioBench UKUSNews Short word error rate slice measuring automatic speech-recognition transcription quality, where lower scores indicate fewer errors.
Metric: WER (%) (lower is better). Source: github.com. 8 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper_large_v3 | 6.17 | |
| 2 | cascade_whisper_large_v2_gemma2_9b_cpt_sea_lionv3_instruct | 6.88 | |
| 3 | cascade_whisper_large_v3_llama_3_8b_instruct | 7.01 | |
| 4 | SALMONN_7B | 9.04 | |
| 5 | MERaLiON-AudioLLM-Whisper-SEA-LION | 10.14 | |
| 6 | Qwen-Audio-Chat | 10.4 | #1244 |
| 7 | Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct | 11.94 | #880 |
| 8 | WavLLM_fairseq | 20.67 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=audiobench-ukusnews-short-wer · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.