SpeechEditBench: A Bilingual Multi-Attribute Benchmark for Instruction-Guided Speech Editing

Abstract

Instruction-guided speech editing requires a model to modify specified speech attributes while preserving non-target characteristics. Despite rapid progress in Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs), systematic evaluation of this capability remains challenging, as existing benchmarks are fragmented across isolated editing tasks. To bridge this gap, we introduce SpeechEditBench, a bilingual multi-attribute benchmark for instruction-guided speech editing. SpeechEditBench encompasses seven atomic editing tasks, as well as compositional editing tasks that integrate multiple operations within a single instruction. We propose an anchor-based evaluation protocol that separately assesses the edit success of target attributes and the preservation of non-target linguistic content, leading to three metrics: target success, preservation success, and joint success. Using this benchmark, we evaluate mainstream Speech LLMs and specialized speech editing systems. The results reveal three key findings: (1) no single model performs well across all editing dimensions; (2) closed-source Speech LLMs generally outperform open-source models; (3) compositional editing poses a significant challenge, with even the most advanced models struggling to achieve high joint success. SpeechEditBench provides a rigorous diagnostic framework to identify bottlenecks in Speech LLMs, thereby facilitating the development of next-generation models with more precise instruction-guided editing capabilities. Data and code are available at https://github.com/daxintan-cuhk/SpeechEditBench.