HELM Audio - Vocal Sound: leaderboard
The "Vocal Sound" 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: PEM. Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 17 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2.5-Omni-7B | 90.35 | #632 |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 05-06) | 85.98 | #148 |
| 3 | Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct | 79.87 | #888 |
| 4 | Gemini 2.0 Flash | 71.9 | #344 |
| 5 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview) | 71.8 | #366 |
| 6 | Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview 05-20) | 62.58 | #214 |
| 7 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (002) | 52.82 | #350 |
| 8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite | 50.62 | #453 |
| 9 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (001) | 49.23 | #446 |
| 10 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (001) | 46.35 | #580 |
| 11 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (002) | 41.8 | #585 |
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-vocal-sound · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-23.