AudioBench - YouTube ASR Batch 1 WER: leaderboard

AudioBench YouTube ASR Batch 1 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
1Gemini 1.5 Flash10.89#618
2Whisper Large-v312.23#1271
3Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct16.18#906
4Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct16.84#880
5SALMONN-7B21.49#1293
6Qwen-Audio-Chat22.98#1244

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=audiobench-youtube-asr-batch-1-wer · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.