
Audio Understanding Benchmarks Leaderboard 2026
Rankings of the best audio language models on MMAU, MMAU-Pro, and other benchmarks covering speech reasoning, music understanding, and environmental sound identification.
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Rankings of the best audio language models on MMAU, MMAU-Pro, and other benchmarks covering speech reasoning, music understanding, and environmental sound identification.

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