ESCUCHA - Pathological Speech: 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 on 158 multiple-choice questions about speakers with ALS or post-stroke speech; higher is better.
Metric: Accuracy (%; 158 multiple-choice questions on non-normative speech from speakers with ALS or after a stroke; 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). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 8 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 | 51.9 | #3673 |
| 2 | Qwen2.5-Omni-7B | 44.94 | #1789 |
| 3 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 36.71 | #453 |
| 4 | Gemma 4 12B (IT) | 36.08 | #693 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=escucha-pathological-speech · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.