AudioBench - UKUSNews Short WER — leaderboard

Metric: WER (%) (lower is better). Source: github.com. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1whisper_large_v36.17
2cascade_whisper_large_v2_gemma2_9b_cpt_sea_lionv3_instruct6.88
3cascade_whisper_large_v3_llama_3_8b_instruct7.01
4SALMONN_7B9.04
5MERaLiON-AudioLLM-Whisper-SEA-LION10.14
6Qwen-Audio-Chat10.4
7Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct11.94
8WavLLM_fairseq20.67

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=audiobench-ukusnews-short-wer · How the rankings work · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-07-22.