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

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

The rapid advancement of audio and multimodal large language models has unlocked transformative speech understanding capabilities, yet evaluation frameworks remain predominantly English-centric, leaving Southeast Asian (SEA) languages critically underrepresented. We introduce SEA-SpeechBench, to the best of our knowledge, the first large-scale multitask benchmark that evaluates speech understanding in 11 SEA languages through 97,194 samples across 99 evaluation sets and 597 hours of curated audio data. Our benchmark comprises 9 diverse tasks across 3 categories: speech processing (automatic sp

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