Benchmark Almanac

SpotSoundBench

Models find the time span of short sound events hidden in long, unstructured YouTube recordings. It has 400 audio, query and timestamp triplets.

Released with the SpotSound method paper. Qwen reports it as audio grounding.

Made by Sun et al. (SpotSound, arXiv 2604.13023) Released Apr 2026 Audio understanding and voice All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2026 Last model added Sep 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
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash leads with 67.2%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 67.2%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 67.2% Sep 2026 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

One lab put it in a launch post in the last six months

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
18 Sep 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 67.2 SpotSoundBench Audio Grounding

One system card reports it

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
22 Sep 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash technical report 67.2 SpotSoundBench (Table 4) Capabilities

More in Audio and video

All 168 in Audio and video
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  • LVBench In use Hours-long video understanding with multiple-choice questions on reasoning, grounding and summarization. Gemini 4 Argon 91.7%
  • MMVU In use 3,000 expert-annotated questions on videos across 27 disciplines. Multiple-choice and open-ended accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 82.4%
  • MLVU In use Multi-task long video understanding (minutes to hours) with multiple-choice and generation tasks. Accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 90.8%
  • VoiceBench In use Spoken instructions with speaker, environment and content variation. Voice assistant responses scored by GPT judge or rules. Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 93.1%
  • TVBench In use Models answer multiple-choice questions on 10 temporal video tasks, such as action counting and ordering, that static frames cannot solve. Scored by accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 81.9%