SEA-SpeechBench - Timestamped Content Query (30-60 s): leaderboard

Timestamped content query in SEA-SpeechBench (Liao et al., 2026): transcribe only what is said inside a given time window of a Southeast Asian recording lasting 30 to 60 seconds, with an English instruction prompt. Word or character error rate in percent, which can exceed 100; lower is better.

Metric: WER or CER (%; transcribe only the speech inside a queried time window of a long recording of 30-60 seconds, CER for languages without word boundaries; English instruction prompt; blank where the model cannot take audio of that length; can exceed 100; lower is better). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct1.22#902
2Gemini 2.5 Flash2.64#452
3Qwen2.5-Omni-7B6.58#1797
4Gemma 3n E4B (IT)7.38#2220
5Gemma 3n E2B (IT)7.49#3758
6Voxtral-Mini-3B-25077.74#3702
7MERaLiON-2-3B8.21#6258
8MERaLiON-2-10B9.48#1646
9Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct14.9#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-timestamped-content-query-30-60-s · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.