README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-to-speech
language:
  - en
tags:
  - speech
  - expressive-speech
  - speech-synthesis
  - audio
  - zero-shot
size_categories:
  - 10M<n<100M

This repository contains the LibriQuote dataset, a speech dataset of fictional character utterances for expressive zero-shot speech synthesis.

You can find more information in the publication, LibriQuote: A Speech Dataset of Fictional Character Utterances for Expressive Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis.

Please refer to the github repository for instructions on how to process the dataset or how to evaluate using the benchmark data.

Usefull links:

• Paper
• GitHub
• Dataset
• Audio samples from the paper

Citation

If you use LibriQuote in your publications, you can cite this work with the following BibTex entry:

@misc{Michel2025LibriQuote,
    title={LibriQuote: A Speech Dataset of Fictional Character Utterances for Expressive Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis}, 
    author={Gaspard Michel and Elena V. Epure and Christophe Cerisara},
    year={2025},
    eprint={2509.04072},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={eess.AS},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04072}
}