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
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Step-Audio-2 | 1.58 |
| 2 | UniSS | 1.31 |
| 3 | SeamlessExpressive | 1.29 |
| 4 | Seed LiveInterpret 2.0 | 1.25 |
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