SCENEBench (Audio Understanding) - Noise Localization (Free Description): leaderboard
Metric: Accuracy (%) on SCENEBench noise localization: 6,000 ESC-50 environmental sound clips given an approaching, receding or oscillating amplitude envelope (three per source clip); a response is correct when it names the right motion pattern or a synonym, from the model's free description of the audio (FR1: describe all auditory characteristics); higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around November 2027. 5 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct | 7.45 | #859 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.
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