SEA-SpeechBench - Spoken QA (SEA Prompt): leaderboard

Spoken question answering in SEA-SpeechBench (Liao et al., 2026) over long-form Southeast Asian speech from YODAS2, with the instruction written in the native Southeast Asian language. A GPT-4.1 judge rates each short answer from 0 to 5, scaled to 0 to 100; higher is better.

Metric: Judge score (0-100): short answers to questions about long-form Southeast Asian speech from YODAS2, rated 0-5 by a GPT-4.1 judge and multiplied by 20; instruction prompt in the native Southeast Asian language. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash86.21#452
2Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct85.62#902
3MERaLiON-2-10B82.05#1646
4Voxtral-Mini-3B-250779.06#3702
5Gemma 3n E4B (IT)78.89#2220
6Qwen2.5-Omni-7B75.57#1797
7MERaLiON-2-3B60.19#6258
8Gemma 3n E2B (IT)56.06#3758
9Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct47.36#3914

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sea-speechbench-spoken-qa-sea-prompt · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.