Comprehensive Benchmarking of Long-Form Speech Generation in Diverse Scenarios
Authors: name: Changhao Pan, name: Rui Yang, name: Han Wang, name: Zhuan Zhou, name: Xuming He, name: Wenxiang Guo, name: Ziyue Jiang, name: Ruiqi Li, name: Yu Zhang, name: Chenyuhao Wen, name: Ke Lei, name: Xiang Yin, name: Jingyu Lu, name: Zhiyuan Zhu, name: Zhou Zhao
Organization: Zhejiang University

Recent advances in speech generation have enabled high-fidelity synthesis, yet systematic evaluation of models under long-context conditions remains largely underexplored. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for long-form speech is indispensable for two reasons: 1) existing test scenarios are often confined to limited domains, creating a significant gap with the diverse downstream applications; 2) existing metrics overlook critical long-text factors such as consistency and coherence, failing to generalize reliably. To this end, we propose Swanbench-Speech, a comprehensive benchmark that decomposes long-form speech quality into specific, disentangled dimensions. SwanBench-Speech has three key properties. 1) Rich speech scenarios: Focusing on long-form speech generation and dialog generation, SwanBench-Speech covers acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness challenges, and consists of 1,101 samples spanning 17 common speech scenarios; 2) Comprehensive evaluation dimensions: Along the acoustics, semantics, and expressiveness axes, SwanBench-Speech defines an automated evaluation protocol with seven metrics to provide a comprehensive, accurate, and standardized assessment; 3) Valuable Insights: Through extensive experiments, we reveal that current models still struggle in highly expressive scenarios and exhibit a notable gap in consistency and hierarchy compared to real recordings.