---
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](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04072).

Please refer to the [github repository](https://github.com/deezer/libriquote) for instructions on how to process the dataset or how to evaluate using the benchmark data.

### Usefull links:

- [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04072)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/deezer/libriquote)
- [Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/gasmichel/LibriQuote/tree/main)
- [Audio samples from the paper](https://libriquote.github.io/)

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

```bibtex
@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}
}
```