IHBench - Recovery Quality - Filler: leaderboard

IHBench (Salimi et al., 2026) interrupts spoken-dialogue models mid-utterance at 428 scripted points in 45 structured-workflow voice conversations across ten domains, with the user's turn given as audio; a GPT-5.4-mini judge (high reasoning) scores the model's next turn, averaged over three epochs. This board is the 60 backchannel fillers such as mm-hm, after which the model should resume the cut-off utterance; percentage of turns meeting every criterion, higher is better.

Metric: Recovery pass rate (%; 60 backchannel fillers, where the turn should resume from the cut-off point, every type-specific criterion met, GPT-5.4-mini judge (high reasoning), audio input, mean of three epochs). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2028. 27 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)68#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
2Gemini 2.5 Flash (Non-reasoning)64#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
3Gemini 2.5 Pro62#262
4Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct46#902
5Voxtral-Small-24B-250736#1291
6Qwen2.5-Omni-7B35#1797
7Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)25#927 (Gemma 4 12B)
8Gemma 4 12B (Non-reasoning)22#927 (Gemma 4 12B)
9Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct18#3914
10Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)13#91

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=ihbench-recovery-quality-filler · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.