Results

The ICASSP 2026 Cadenza Challenge: Predicting Lyric Intelligibility is now complete. Results are shown in the table below.

Teams invited to submit a paper to ICASSP 2026 Grand Challenge are marked with *. These were selected according to the average evaluation RMSE score and the team's availability to attend to ICASSP 2026 in Barcelona.

Description papers not yet available

Description papers will be added during the second half of January 2026.

Rank	System	Ref Text	Unproc Signal	HL Severity	Dev RMSE	Eval RMSE	Eval Corr
1	T045 *	Yes	No	Yes	25.89	26.44	0.67
2	T071a *	Yes	Yes	No	26.4	26.52	0.67
3	T013a *	Yes	No	No	26.61	26.54	0.67
4	T017	No	No	No	26.82	26.67	0.67
5	T072a	Yes	Yes	Yes	26.59	26.68	0.66
6	T072b	No	Yes	Yes	26.94	26.84	0.66
7	T040 *	No	Yes	No	27.13	27.07	0.65
8	T088a *	Yes	Yes	Yes	26.76	27.22	0.65
9	T051	Yes	Yes	No	26.97	27.31	0.64
10	T086	No	Yes	Yes	27.43	27.31	0.64
11	T091	Yes	No	Yes	26.96	27.43	0.64
12	T019	Yes	Yes	No	26.7	28.24	0.63
13	T088b	No	Yes	Yes	28.7	28.34	0.61
14	T015	Yes	Yes	No	27.6	28.46	0.61
15	T024	Yes	Yes	No	28.68	28.69	0.61
16	T063	No	No	Yes	28.37	28.81	0.63
17	BL Whisper	Yes	No	No	29.32	29.08	0.58
18	T084	Yes	No	Yes	27.71	29.17	0.59
19	T013b	No	Yes	No	29.75	29.68	0.57
20	T036	No	No	No	30.98	30.97	0.5
21	T071b	No	Yes	No	31	31.64	0.46
22	T044b	No	No	No	31.45	32.2	0.45
23	T054	Yes	No	Yes	31.44	32.3	0.43
24	T044a	No	Yes	No	34.22	32.77	0.48
25	T016	Yes	Yes	Yes	28.09	32.89	0.44
26	T094	Yes	No	No	32.75	33.25	0.56
27	BL STOI	No	Yes	No	36.11	34.89	0.21
28	T050	No	No	No	36.54	36.08	0.45
29	T073	Yes	No	No	36.73	36.27	-0.04