GlobeAudio: leaderboard

GlobeAudio (2026) evaluates audio-language models on multiple-choice questions written by native speakers about naturally occurring audio in English, Russian, Chinese, Thai, Singlish and Bengali, requiring auditory reasoning and cultural interpretation. The score is the macro-average accuracy in percent over the six languages, with the audio fed to the model directly; higher is better.

Metric: Macro-average over six languages of accuracy (%) on GlobeAudio's naturalistic-audio multiple-choice questions written by native speakers; audio fed to the model directly, source-language prompts, predicted option label against the key. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)82.68#94
2Gemini 2.0 Flash66.72#704
3MiMo-V2.561.08#354
4Voxtral-Small-24B-250757.94#1291
5Gemma 3n E4B (IT)56.53#2210
6MERaLiON-2-10B55.64#1640

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=globeaudio · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.