SEA-SpeechBench - Emotion Recognition (English Prompt): leaderboard

Emotion recognition over a closed nine-class label set in SEA-SpeechBench (Liao et al., 2026) from short clips in 11 Southeast Asian languages, with an English instruction prompt. Accuracy in percent, with free-form answers mapped to labels by a Gemma-3-27B-Instruct judge; higher is better.

Metric: Judge-based accuracy (%; closed nine-class emotion label from speech, free-form answers mapped to labels and judged by Gemma-3-27B-Instruct, per-dataset scores averaged; short clips of at most 30 s from curated public Southeast Asian speech corpora, up to 1,000 sampled items per dataset; English instruction prompt). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1MERaLiON-2-3B23.99#6258
2Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct20.87#3914
3Gemini 2.5 Flash19.5#452
4MERaLiON-2-10B18.73#1646
5Qwen2.5-Omni-7B16.33#1797
6Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct15.94#902
7Gemma 3n E4B (IT)12.46#2220
8Gemma 3n E2B (IT)12.21#3758
9Voxtral-Mini-3B-250710.62#3702

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

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