WoW-Bench: Evaluating Fine-Grained Acoustic Perception in Audio-Language Models via Marine Mammal Vocalizations

arXiv:2508.20976 · cs.SD, cs.AI, eess.AS · Submitted 2025-08-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.AI, eess.AS

Submitted: 2025-08-28

Updated: 2026-10-19

Comments: Findings of ACL 2026. Project page: https://jaeyeonkim99.github.io/wow_bench/

Journal ref: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 31208-31229

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.1562

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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