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Which English-language role-play or persona benchmarks exist, and what does each one actually score (is character-to-character voice distinctiveness among the scored things)?

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Four benchmark-style resources were read. RoleBench scores reference overlap (ROUGE-L) and judge/human win rates for single-turn answers in a role; PersonaGym scores five rubric tasks per demographic persona with an LLM-judge ensemble; PersonaEval scores whether a judge can name the speaker in human-written dialogue; the Speaker Verification work is the only one read that defines a cross-character measure (Distinction Score) on generated lines. CharacterEval is Chinese-only on its abstract page. None of the four reports a human-rated test of whether generated characters sound different from each other.

Four benchmark-style resources were read. RoleBench scores reference overlap (ROUGE-L) and judge/human win rates for single-turn answers in a role; PersonaGym scores five rubric tasks per demographic persona with an LLM-judge ensemble; PersonaEval scores whether a judge can name the speaker in human-written dialogue; the Speaker Verification work is the only one read that defines a cross-character measure (Distinction Score) on generated lines. CharacterEval is Chinese-only on its abstract page. None of the four reports a human-rated test of whether generated characters sound different from each other. Curator qualifications: Four resources measure different things: RoleBench (ROUGE-L and win rates, single turn), PersonaGym (rubric tasks with LLM-judge ensemble), PersonaEval (judge names the speaker in human dialogue), Speaker Verification (only cross-character Distinction Score). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Four benchmark-style resources were read. RoleBench scores reference overlap (ROUGE-L) and judge/human win rates for single-turn answers in a role; PersonaGym scores five rubric tasks per demographic persona with an LLM-judge ensemble; PersonaEval scores whether a judge can name the speaker in human-written dialogue; the Speaker Verification work is the only one read that defines a cross-character measure (Distinction Score) on generated lines. CharacterEval is Chinese-only on its abstract page. None of the four reports a human-rated test of whether generated characters sound different from each other. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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