Phonic 1 Scores 98.9% on Big Bench Audio, Tops Tau Voice Agentic Benchmark
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-30
Artificial Analysis shared Big Bench Audio results: Phonic 1 (High) scores 98.9% on speech reasoning, ahead of Grok Voice 3.0 (98.5%) and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) (97.7%), trailing only StepAudio 3 Realtime (99.7%) and Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Plus (99.2%). The thread also details Tau Voice, its agentic benchmark: Phonic 1 leads at 79.9%, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) (74.5%), Grok Voice 3.0 (71.6%), Gemini 3.8 Live (68.6%) and GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) (59.3%). Unlike short-conversation task success in the Arena, Tau Voice tests strict policy-following and multi-step tool use in long customer-service tasks.
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