STEB - Nonverbal Vocalization Preservation (Chinese to English): leaderboard

Metric: LLM-judged nonverbal-vocalization preservation (1-5): type, count, order and position of events such as laughter in the NV-marked transcripts of the source and the translated speech (BEATs event detection), scored three times by Qwen3-30B-A3B (outlier-aware aggregate); Chinese-to-English speech-to-speech translation of the NV subset's Chinese source utterances. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Step-Audio-21.58
2UniSS1.31
3SeamlessExpressive1.29
4Seed LiveInterpret 2.01.25

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