Audio Evaluation — WER, MOS, UTMOS, MMAU, FAD, and the Open Leaderboards

You cannot ship what you cannot measure. This lesson names the 2026 metrics for every audio task: ASR (WER, CER, RTFx), TTS (MOS, UTMOS, SECS, WER-on-ASR-round-trip), audio-language (MMAU, LongAudioBench), music (FAD, CLAP), and speaker (E...