HELM Audio - Multilingual Librispeech: leaderboard

The "Multilingual Librispeech" subtask of HELM Audio. Stanford HELM's audio project (AHELM): audio-language models are given speech and sound clips and scored on transcription, spoken-question answering, reasoning over audio, speaker and emotion attributes, safety and fairness.

Metric: WER. Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 17 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)5.39#350
2Gemini 2.0 Flash6#344
3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)6#366
4Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite6.73#453
5Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)7.07#585
6Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)7.27#446
7Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)8.81#580
8Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 05-06)19.83#148
9Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct33.67#888
10Qwen2.5-Omni-7B41.57#632
11Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview 05-20)60.29#214

No result here: #4 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=helm-audio-multilingual-librispeech · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-23.