STEB - Translation COMET (Chinese to English): leaderboard

Chinese to English speech-to-speech translation on STEB, a 32.6-hour benchmark of real drama, audiobook, advertisement, interview, news and commentary speech (Cheng et al., 2026). Translation fidelity: COMET (wmt22-comet-da, 0-1) of the ASR transcript of the translated speech against the reference translation; higher is better.

Metric: COMET (wmt22-comet-da, 0-1 scale) of the Qwen3-ASR transcript of the translated speech against the reference translation; Chinese-to-English speech-to-speech translation. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Step-Audio-20.78
2UniSS0.77
3Seed LiveInterpret 2.00.76
4SeamlessExpressive0.69

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