SEABED - Emotion Recognition (Open-Ended): leaderboard

SEABED (Rajgarhia et al., 2026) is an audio-first reasoning benchmark on Southeast Asian speech built from openly available corpora. In this task the model names one of ten emotions from Thai or Indonesian emotional speech whose words rarely name the feeling; answers are open-ended and a Grok 4.5 judge marks each answer correct or incorrect, and the score is accuracy in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; 504 ten-way speech emotion recognition in Thai and Indonesian items; open-ended answers judged by Grok 4.5, binary correct or incorrect (graded 0 to 1 for long-form); audio at 16 kHz). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.5 Flash48.8#98
2Gemini 3.6 Flash41.2#72
3Gemini 2.5 Pro31.7#262

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=seabed-emotion-recognition-open-ended · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.