KoALa-Bench: Evaluating Large Audio Language Models on Korean Speech Understanding and Faithfulness

arXiv:2604.19782 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.SD, eess.AS · Submitted 2026-03-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.SD, eess.AS

Submitted: 2026-03-30

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/scai-research/KoALa-Bench

Terminology

Benchmark — 39× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Speech Translation — 8× in this paper
Robustness — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Automatic Speech Recognition — 6× in this paper
Ground Truth — 5× in this paper
Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Hallucination — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Speech Instruction Following — 5× in this paper
Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Speech Question Answering — 4× in this paper
Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Evidence Attention Ratio — 3× in this paper
Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Speech Context Faithfulness — 2× in this paper
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Speech Context Aware Question Answering — 1× in this paper
Standardized Benchmarks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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