UltraEval-Audio: A Unified Framework for Comprehensive Evaluation of Audio Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01373v1
• Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:54:12 GMT
• Title: UltraEval-Audio: A Unified Framework for Comprehensive Evaluation of Audio Foundation Models
• Authors: Qundong Shi, Jie Zhou, Biyuan Lin, Junbo Cui, Guoyang Zeng, Yixuan Zhou, Ziyang Wang, Xin Liu, Zhen Luo, Yudong Wang, Zhiyuan Liu,
• Abstract summary: UltraEval-Audio is a unified evaluation framework for audio foundation models.<n>It supports 10 languages and 14 core task categories, while seamlessly integrating 24 mainstream models and 36 authoritative benchmarks.<n>It adopts a novel comprehensive evaluation scheme for audio codecs, evaluating performance across three key dimensions.
• Score: 36.71750531005594
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The development of audio foundation models has accelerated rapidly since the emergence of GPT-4o. However, the lack of comprehensive evaluation has become a critical bottleneck for further progress in the field, particularly in audio generation. Current audio evaluation faces three major challenges: (1) audio evaluation lacks a unified framework, with datasets and code scattered across various sources, hindering fair and efficient cross-model comparison;(2) audio codecs, as a key component of audio foundation models, lack a widely accepted and holistic evaluation methodology; (3) existing speech benchmarks are heavily reliant on English, making it challenging to objectively assess models' performance on Chinese. To address the first issue, we introduce UltraEval-Audio, a unified evaluation framework for audio foundation models, specifically designed for both audio understanding and generation tasks. UltraEval-Audio features a modular architecture, supporting 10 languages and 14 core task categories, while seamlessly integrating 24 mainstream models and 36 authoritative benchmarks. To enhance research efficiency, the framework provides a one-command evaluation feature, accompanied by real-time public leaderboards. For the second challenge, UltraEval-Audio adopts a novel comprehensive evaluation scheme for audio codecs, evaluating performance across three key dimensions: semantic accuracy, timbre fidelity, and acoustic quality. To address the third issue, we propose two new Chinese benchmarks, SpeechCMMLU and SpeechHSK, designed to assess Chinese knowledge proficiency and language fluency. We wish that UltraEval-Audio will provide both academia and industry with a transparent, efficient, and fair platform for comparison of audio models. Our code, benchmarks, and leaderboards are available at https://github.com/OpenBMB/UltraEval-Audio.

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