STEB - Emotion Preservation (Chinese to English): leaderboard

Metric: LLM-judged emotion consistency (1-5) of category, intensity and attitude between the source and the translated speech: both are captioned by Qwen3-Omni-Captioner and summarized by Qwen3-30B-A3B, which scores the pair three times (outlier-aware aggregate); Chinese-to-English speech-to-speech translation of the normal subset's Chinese source utterances. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1UniSS3.61
2Step-Audio-23.57
3Seed LiveInterpret 2.03.34
4SeamlessExpressive3.1

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