Benchmark Almanac

Seed-TTS-eval

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Models clone a voice from a short prompt and speak new text in English and Mandarin. Scored by word error rate from an ASR model and by speaker similarity.

Uses 1,000 Common Voice samples for English and 2,000 DiDiSpeech-2 samples for Mandarin, plus a hard Mandarin set. Repo has about 1,600 GitHub stars.

Made by ByteDance (Seed-TTS team) Released Jun 2024 Speech recognition and translation All tasks public Last in a launch post Mar 2026 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Apr 2026
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
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System cards report it, from 3 labs

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No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Seed-TTS-eval yet.

Labs headline it less often now, last in Mar 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
30 Mar 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 1.35 Seed-en custom voice stability (Seed-zh 1.07, Seed-hard 6.24)
22 Sep 2025 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B 1.39 SEED test-zh / test-en 1.07 / 1.39 (test-en recorded)
27 Mar 2025 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 2.32 SEED test-en content consistency, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B_RL (test-zh 1.42, test-hard 6.54)

5 system cards report it, from 3 labs

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
17 Apr 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus technical report SEED zero-shot TTS WER test-zh 0.99, test-en 1.26, no overall (Table 8) Capabilities
4 Feb 2026 ERNIE 5.0 technical report SEED-TTS test-zh 1.35, test-en 1.54, WER, lower is better, no overall score (Table 8) Capabilities
22 Sep 2025 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B technical report SEED test-zh 1.07, test-en 1.39, content consistency WER, lower is better, no overall score (Table 13) Capabilities
18 Sep 2025 MiMo-Audio-7B-Instruct technical report Seed-TTS-Eval WER ZH 1.96, EN 5.37, ZH-Hard 14.14, lower is better, no overall score (Table 9) Capabilities
26 Mar 2025 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B technical report SEED content consistency WER, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B RL test-zh 1.42, test-en 2.33, test-hard 6.54 (ICL 1.70, 2.72, 7.97). Speaker similarity RL 0.754, 0.641, 0.752. Lower WER is better, no overall score (Table 9) Capabilities

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