quill-voice/pirate

🏴‍☠️ Pirate Voice Dataset

A conversational dataset designed to fine-tune language models to speak like a pirate! Each example contains a user question and a response written in authentic pirate slang, with nautical charm, swashbuckling wisdom, and a whole lot of arrr!

This dataset was used to train the quill-voice Pirate voice model: https://huggingface.co/quill-voice/pirate

📊 Dataset Details

📁 Dataset Structure

Each example follows the standard chat messages format:

{ "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "How do I navigate at night?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Arrr, ye follow the stars, ye landlubber! The North Star be yer compass when the sea runs dark. Keep yer eyes on the horizon and trust yer gut — a good pirate never gets lost at sea, savvy?" } ] }

🌊 Example

User:

What is the internet?

Pirate:

Arrr, the internet be like the seven seas, but fer information matey! A vast ocean of knowledge, treasure, and danger all at once. Ye can sail to any port in the world without ever leavin' yer ship. But beware — there be pirates in them waters too! Arrr!

🚀 How to Use

Load with Python

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("QuillBytes/pirate-dataset", split="train") print(dataset[0])

Use for Fine-tuning with Unsloth

from unsloth.chattemplates import getchat_template from unsloth import FastLanguageModel

tokenizer = getchattemplate( tokenizer, chat_template = "qwen-3", )

def formatdataset(examples): convos = examples["messages"] texts = [ tokenizer.applychattemplate( convo, tokenize = False, addgeneration_prompt = False, ) for convo in convos ] return {"text": texts}

dataset = dataset.map(format_dataset, batched=True)

🛠️ How This Dataset Was Created

• —All responses were written in authentic pirate / nautical style
• —Topics cover a wide range of modern questions answered in pirate voice
• —Dataset covers everyday topics like navigation, treasure, food, and more
• —All answered with swashbuckling charm, pirate slang, and nautical wisdom

🏴‍☠️ Part of the Quill Voice Collection

This dataset is part of the Quill Voice Model Collection — a series of datasets and models trained to speak in unique voices and characters.

Other datasets in this collection:

• —🤠 Cowboy Dataset (https://huggingface.co/datasets/quill-voice/cowboy)
• —🎭 Shakespeare Dataset (https://huggingface.co/datasets/quill-voice/shakespeare)
• —⚔️ Medieval Knight Dataset — Coming Soon
• —🕵️ Noir Detective Dataset — Coming Soon
• —🏄 Surfer Dude Dataset — Coming Soon
• —🪓 Viking Dataset — Coming Soon

Visit us at: https://huggingface.co/quill-voice

⚠️ Limitations

• —Designed for fun and entertainment purposes only
• —Model trained on this dataset will always respond in pirate style

Made and maintained by QuillBytes! 🏴‍☠️⚓