# Can an LLM judge reliably say which character is speaking, and what does that imply for using an LLM to check character voice?

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PersonaEval (arXiv 2508.10014v1, 6 Aug 2025) gives LLM evaluators dialogue context plus four or five described candidate roles and asks who the second speaker is. The paper reports the best LLM at around 69% top-1 accuracy against 90.8% for 20 human volunteers on a hard sample, and says models lean on speaking style while humans use addressing and intent. Items are human-authored (English novels, Chinese scripts, English explainer videos), so the result says how judges treat existing text, not how they treat generated dialogue.

PersonaEval (arXiv 2508.10014v1, 6 Aug 2025) gives LLM evaluators dialogue context plus four or five described candidate roles and asks who the second speaker is. The paper reports the best LLM at around 69% top-1 accuracy against 90.8% for 20 human volunteers on a hard sample, and says models lean on speaking style while humans use addressing and intent. Items are human-authored (English novels, Chinese scripts, English explainer videos), so the result says how judges treat existing text, not how they treat generated dialogue.

Curator qualifications: PersonaEval: best LLM ~69% top-1 vs 90.8% humans on a hard sample; models lean on style, humans on addressing and intent.

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] PersonaEval (arXiv 2508.10014v1, 6 Aug 2025) gives LLM evaluators dialogue context plus four or five described candidate roles and asks who the second speaker is. The paper reports the best LLM at around 69% top-1 accuracy against 90.8% for 20 human volunteers on a hard sample, and says models lean on speaking style while humans use addressing and intent. Items are human-authored (English novels, Chinese scripts, English explainer videos), so the result says how judges treat existing text, not how they treat generated dialogue. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://arxiv.org/html/2508.10014v1

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