Soul-Bench is an evaluation benchmark for audio-driven human animation tasks, released by Tencent YouTu Lab in 2025. Related research papers include... Soul: Breathe Life into Digital Human for High-fidelity Long-term Multimodal AnimationThe aim is to systematically evaluate the generation quality, consistency, and generalization ability of relevant methods in real-world application scenarios.

This dataset contains 226 video test samples, exhibiting a relatively rich distribution across multiple dimensions, as detailed below:

• Main body type distribution
  • Upper body scenes: 107
  • Full-body scenes: 72
  • Portraits, animated characters, and animals: 47 items
• Audio type distribution
  • Dialogue-based audio: 177 pieces
  • Vocal performances: 49 items
• Video resolution distribution
  • 1080P: 118 items
  • 720P: 55 items
  • 4K: 51 items
  • 480P: 2 items
• Screen proportions
  • 1 < r ≤ 2: 170 entries
  • r = 1 (square): 44 lines
  • 0.5 ≤ r < 1 (vertical): 12 lines
• Video duration distribution
  • 27–30 second interval: 70 lines