Sung line
The prompt “A person singing the line "hold on to me" with visible breath and sustained vowel shapes”
Sustained vowels differ from speech. Tests whether audio sync is real or approximated.
- Models tested
- 16
- Top score
- 5.00 10 models tied
- Average
- 4.59
- Lowest
- 1.17 MiniMax Hailuo 02
Every model, same prompt
The clips on screen play together from the first frame, muted. Open one for sound, controls and our notes.
Wan 3.0
AlibabaSung "hold on to me", confirmed in the audio, with long held vowels and visible breath.
Vivix W1
VivixSung "hold on to me", confirmed in the audio, with sustained open vowels and visible breath.
FLUX 3
Black Forest LabsSung "hold on to me", confirmed in the audio, with sustained open vowels and visible breath.
Google Gemini Omni
GoogleSings the requested lyric with mouth shapes convincingly synced to the sustained vocal notes.
MiniMax H3
MiniMaxAudio present, sustained melody matches the sung phonemes.
Google Veo 3.1
GoogleSustained vowel shapes and visible breath match the sung phrase precisely.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDanceAudible singing with sustained vowel shapes.
Seedance 2.0
ByteDanceAudible singing with sustained, elongated vowel shapes distinct from normal speech.
Grok Video
xAISung line matches, articulation tracks the melody.
OpenAI Sora 2
OpenAISustained vowels matched to mouth shapes, visible breath.
Kling 3.0 Turbo
Kuaishou
Kling 4.0
KuaishouSings "hold on to me" twice, confirmed in the audio, with sustained vowels; the clip cuts to a close-up of the mouth and back. Checked frame by frame.
Runway Gen-4.5
RunwaySilent clip (no native audio); expressive mouth/vowel shapes plausible for studio singing.
PixVerse v5.5
PixVerseMouth shapes read as breathing/exhaling into cold air rather than singing vowel shapes -- the model appears to have depicted the wrong action entirely; not independently frame-verified, moderate-severe discount given how specific and confident the description was.
Kling 3.0
KuaishouMouth shapes and breath vapor present, but silent, no vocal track.
MiniMax Hailuo 02
MiniMaxFAILURE MODE: no audio track; mouth shows generic singing-style morphs unrelated to the actual sung phrase.
Ranked by our blind vision-model judge; models with the same score share a position. Read how we test.