MCGA - Speech Emotion Captioning: leaderboard

Describing the speaker and the emotions of a recited classical Chinese text from audio (MCGA; Du et al., Harbin Institute of Technology, 2026), 1,000 test recordings. Emotion Caption Fidelity, judged by DeepSeek-V3.2, sums persona recognition (20 points), global emotional tone (30) and sentence-level emotion (50); higher is better.

Metric: Emotion Caption Fidelity (0-100; persona, global tone and sentence-level emotion of 1,000 test recordings, DeepSeek-V3.2 judge). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct58.4#902
2Gemini 3 Flash54#159
3Qwen2.5-Omni-7B37#1797
4Voxtral-Small-24B-250716.4#1291
5Voxtral-Mini-3B-250715#3702
6Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct12.7#3914

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=mcga-speech-emotion-captioning · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.