arXiv AI By Harshit Rajgarhia, Asif Shaik, Rachuri Lokesh, Sushanta Kumar Pani, Abhishek Mukherji

SEABED: SouthEast Asian Benchmark for Evaluating Audio Reasoning

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arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

SEA-SpeechBench: A Large-Scale Multitask Benchmark for Speech Understanding Across Southeast Asia

SEA-SpeechBench is a large‑scale multitask benchmark for speech understanding in 11 Southeast Asian languages, comprising 97,194 samples across 99 evaluation sets and 597 hours of curated audio. It covers nine tasks in three categories—speech processing, paralinguistic analysis, and a novel temporal understanding dimension—using multilingual prompting in both native SEA languages and English. Evaluation of current models shows significant performance gaps, especially in temporal understanding, emotion recognition, and speech translation, with low‑resource languages lagging behind English by up to 41 percentage points.

By Jingyi Liao, Wenyu Zhang, Zhuohan Liu, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin, Xunlong Zou, Shuo Sun, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff, Ai Ti Aw