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Time to First Audio Ranking — Speech-to-Speech (2026)

null by null leads the Time to First Audio ranking with a score of 0.44. The ranking covers 20 evaluated speech-to-speech from a public dataset that AI Battle re-checks daily.

Last updated: . Source: public benchmark datasets and provider pricing, aggregated daily; 20 entries shown.

Deepslate Opal0.44Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio Dialog0.63Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High0.70Grok Voice Fast 1.00.78Qwen3.5 Omni Flash Realtime0.79GPT Realtime Mini (Oct '25)0.81Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct (realtime)0.88Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview - Minimal0.96GPT-Realtime-2 (Minimal)1.12Nova 2.0 Sonic (Mar 2026)1.14GPT-Realtime-2 (High)1.14GPT-Realtime-2.1 High, OpenAI1.21GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low), OpenAI1.24Grok Voice Think Fast 1.01.25GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium), OpenAI1.34Step-Audio R1.1 (Realtime)1.53Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Plus, Alibaba Cloud1.54Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Flash, Alibaba Cloud1.55Qwen3.5 Omni Plus Realtime2.64Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview - High2.99
Every entry in the dataset, scaled from the smallest to the largest published value.

All 20 entries in this dataset

#EntryCreatorValueΔ vs #1
1Deepslate Opal0.440.0%
2Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio Dialog0.6344.6%
3Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High0.7059.5%
4Grok Voice Fast 1.00.7877.1%
5Qwen3.5 Omni Flash Realtime0.7980.7%
6GPT Realtime Mini (Oct '25)0.8183.4%
7Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct (realtime)0.88101.1%
8Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview - Minimal0.96119.5%
9GPT-Realtime-2 (Minimal)1.12155.1%
10Nova 2.0 Sonic (Mar 2026)1.14159.7%
11GPT-Realtime-2 (High)1.14159.7%
12GPT-Realtime-2.1 High, OpenAI1.21176.7%
13GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low), OpenAI1.24181.6%
14Grok Voice Think Fast 1.01.25184.0%
15GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium), OpenAI1.34205.9%
16Step-Audio R1.1 (Realtime)1.53248.3%
17Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Plus, Alibaba Cloud1.54250.8%
18Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Flash, Alibaba Cloud1.55253.1%
19Qwen3.5 Omni Plus Realtime2.64502.0%
20Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview - High2.99580.3%

How the values are distributed

Across the 20 numeric entries in this window the median is 1.14 and the mean is 1.23, so the typical entry sits 0.70 above the leader. The window spans 0.44 to 2.99.

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8 equal buckets between the smallest (0.44) and largest (2.99) value; numbers under bars are entry counts.

11 of 20 entries are at or above the median, and the top three hold 29% of the combined value — read it against the metric below, since a higher number is not "better" for every dataset.

Who publishes these entries

The source dataset for this family does not publish a provider or creator label per entry, so AI Battle cannot group them: the table above is the complete published list. Where the dataset does carry a label (model, gateway and tool families do), this section names the creators and how many entries each holds.

Metric reference

This ranking carries the metric timeToFirstAudioSeconds from the Time to First Audio dataset in the tab::s2s family. Units and the direction of "better" are not declared by the source dataset, so AI Battle does not invent them: values are shown exactly as published, and the ordering is the source dataset's own.

How this ranking is built

Rebuilt on from the public dataset Time to First Audio (family tab::s2s). The source lists 20 entries and all 20 are shown here. AI Battle requests the dataset's rows, keeps the ordering the source publishes, and computes only the statistics on this page: median, mean, spread, the #1–#2 gap, the creator breakdown and the raw-data file. Nothing on this page is generated text about the entries — the numbers come from the source.

Refresh cadence: every deploy re-pulls the dataset, so this page tracks the source's own update cycle. Corrections: see the methodology page.

Limitations

Raw data

Machine-readable copy of this table, with the statistics below and the source provenance: /data/rankings/s2s-time-to-first-audio.json. Free to reuse with attribution to AI Battle and the source dataset.

FAQ — Time to First Audio

What is the best model for Time to First Audio in 2026?

null by null currently leads the Time to First Audio ranking with a score of 0.44, the highest value in this dataset across Speech-to-Speech. AI Battle aggregates the dataset from its public source and re-checks it daily.

How often is the Time to First Audio ranking updated?

The Time to First Audio ranking is rebuilt daily from the upstream public dataset. Scores are the source dataset's own published values, so positions track whatever that source last released — each ranking page names the dataset it comes from.

Which models rank in the top 3 for Time to First Audio?

The top 3 are: 1. null (0.44), 2. null (0.63), 3. null (0.70).

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