ParaPairAudioBench: Paralinguistic Pairwise Audio Benchmark for LALM-as-a-Judge
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arXiv:2606.24648 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Jun 2026]
Title:ParaPairAudioBench: Paralinguistic Pairwise Audio Benchmark for LALM-as-a-Judge
Authors:Jisu Jeon, Seungyeon Jwa, Joosung Lee, Jinhyeon Kim, Woojin Chung, Hwiyeol Jo, Jeonghoon Kim, Jonghyun Choi, Soyoon Kim
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Abstract:Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have been widely used as judge models for the automatic evaluation of generated speech. However, prior approaches predominantly focus on holistic naturalness, leaving fine-grained paralinguistic distinctions underexplored. We introduce ParaPairAudioBench, a pairwise benchmark of 5,175 audio pairs across five paralinguistic dimensions: Style, Rate, Emphasis, Age, and Gender. Our experiments show that current LALM judges still lag behind human judgments by 32%p on average and exhibit severe calibration failures, particularly in Tie cases where the correct decision is to abstain. To further analyze lexical versus acoustic reliance, the benchmark includes both same-transcript and cross-transcript conditions. ParaPairAudioBench enables multi-dimensional, calibration-aware assessment of the reliability of LALM-as-a-Judge for paralinguistic speech evaluation.
| Comments: | Accepted to Interspeech 2026 |
| Subjects: | Sound (cs.SD); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.24648 [cs.SD] |
| (or arXiv:2606.24648v1 [cs.SD] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24648
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