ODU-Bench (Audio-Only) - Transcription: leaderboard

Transcription in ODU-Bench (Chen et al., 2026): accuracy of the transcript of the spoken demand, one minus the pooled character or word error rate, on the demand scenes of 731 synthetic audio-only scenes (user turns as audio, earlier assistant replies as text). Percent; higher is better.

Metric: Transcript accuracy (%; max(0, 1 - pooled CER or WER) of the demand transcript, demand scenes only; 731 synthetic audio-only scenes (570 with a demand, 161 without), user turns as audio, earlier assistant replies as text). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Seed 2.0 Lite93.2#286
2Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)91.7#91
3Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct91#902
4Qwen 3.5 Omni Plus89.3#237
5Gemini 3.7 Flash88.4#32
6Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite74.3#300
7Qwen2.5-Omni-7B69.4#1797

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=odu-bench-audio-only-transcription · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.