SpeechRole: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluating Speech Role-Playing Agents

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Autori principali: Jiang, Changhao, Sun, Jiajun, Cao, Yifei, Zhuang, Jiabao, Che, Xinmeng, Li, Hui, Fan, Xiaoran, Zhang, Ming, Ye, Junjie, Dou, Shihan, Xi, Zhiheng, Tong, Jingqi, Wu, Yilong, Fan, Baoyu, Ji, Tao, Gui, Tao, Zhang, Qi, Huang, Xuanjing
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author Jiang, Changhao
Sun, Jiajun
Cao, Yifei
Zhuang, Jiabao
Che, Xinmeng
Li, Hui
Fan, Xiaoran
Zhang, Ming
Ye, Junjie
Dou, Shihan
Xi, Zhiheng
Tong, Jingqi
Wu, Yilong
Fan, Baoyu
Ji, Tao
Gui, Tao
Zhang, Qi
Huang, Xuanjing
author_facet Jiang, Changhao
Sun, Jiajun
Cao, Yifei
Zhuang, Jiabao
Che, Xinmeng
Li, Hui
Fan, Xiaoran
Zhang, Ming
Ye, Junjie
Dou, Shihan
Xi, Zhiheng
Tong, Jingqi
Wu, Yilong
Fan, Baoyu
Ji, Tao
Gui, Tao
Zhang, Qi
Huang, Xuanjing
contents Speech is essential for realistic role-playing, yet existing work on role-playing agents largely centers on text, leaving Speech Role-Playing Agents (SRPAs) underexplored and without systematic evaluation. We introduce SpeechRole, a unified framework for developing and assessing SRPAs. SpeechRole-Data contains 98 roles and 111k speech-to-speech conversations with rich timbre and prosodic variation, providing large-scale resources for training SRPAs. SpeechRole-Eval offers a multidimensional benchmark that directly evaluates generated speech, preserving paralinguistic cues and measuring interaction ability, speech expressiveness, and role-playing fidelity. Experiments show that end-to-end SRPAs such as GPT-4o Audio achieve strong fluency and naturalness, but remain limited in prosody consistency and emotion appropriateness. In contrast, current open-source end-to-end models exhibit substantial performance gaps across multiple evaluation dimensions. Cascaded and end-to-end systems achieve comparable results in interaction ability and role-playing fidelity, suggesting that these aspects are still largely influenced by the underlying text-based language models. We release all data, code, and evaluation tools at https://github.com/yuhui1038/SpeechRole.
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spellingShingle SpeechRole: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluating Speech Role-Playing Agents
Jiang, Changhao
Sun, Jiajun
Cao, Yifei
Zhuang, Jiabao
Che, Xinmeng
Li, Hui
Fan, Xiaoran
Zhang, Ming
Ye, Junjie
Dou, Shihan
Xi, Zhiheng
Tong, Jingqi
Wu, Yilong
Fan, Baoyu
Ji, Tao
Gui, Tao
Zhang, Qi
Huang, Xuanjing
Computation and Language
Speech is essential for realistic role-playing, yet existing work on role-playing agents largely centers on text, leaving Speech Role-Playing Agents (SRPAs) underexplored and without systematic evaluation. We introduce SpeechRole, a unified framework for developing and assessing SRPAs. SpeechRole-Data contains 98 roles and 111k speech-to-speech conversations with rich timbre and prosodic variation, providing large-scale resources for training SRPAs. SpeechRole-Eval offers a multidimensional benchmark that directly evaluates generated speech, preserving paralinguistic cues and measuring interaction ability, speech expressiveness, and role-playing fidelity. Experiments show that end-to-end SRPAs such as GPT-4o Audio achieve strong fluency and naturalness, but remain limited in prosody consistency and emotion appropriateness. In contrast, current open-source end-to-end models exhibit substantial performance gaps across multiple evaluation dimensions. Cascaded and end-to-end systems achieve comparable results in interaction ability and role-playing fidelity, suggesting that these aspects are still largely influenced by the underlying text-based language models. We release all data, code, and evaluation tools at https://github.com/yuhui1038/SpeechRole.
title SpeechRole: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluating Speech Role-Playing Agents
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02013