ESCUCHA: leaderboard
ESCUCHA (2026) is a Spanish speech-understanding benchmark of 1,000 expert-curated questions over in-the-wild recordings from seconds to 85 minutes long, with multiple accents and non-normative speech. Accuracy in percent over all questions (multiple choice plus audio instruction following); higher is better.
Metric: Accuracy (%; all 1,000 questions: 900 multiple-choice items scored by exact letter match and 100 audio instruction-following items checked by a deterministic verifier; in-the-wild Spanish audio from 6.7 s to 85 min per question with multiple accents and non-normative speech; one shared system prompt for every model; random baseline 23.05%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2029. 8 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 52.8 | #453 |
| 2 | Qwen2.5-Omni-7B | 50.6 | #1789 |
| 3 | Gemma 4 12B (IT) | 49.3 | #693 |
| 4 | Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 | 49.2 | #3673 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=escucha · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.