diff --git a/docs/src/python/common_datasets.rst b/docs/src/python/common_datasets.rst
index 0b5bc92..f81732d 100644
--- a/docs/src/python/common_datasets.rst
+++ b/docs/src/python/common_datasets.rst
@@ -67,5 +67,6 @@ the wikitext-103 datasets.
     load_imagenet
     load_images_from_folder
     load_librispeech
+    load_libritts_r
     load_wikitext_lines
     load_speechcommands
diff --git a/python/mlx/data/datasets/__init__.py b/python/mlx/data/datasets/__init__.py
index 27673c8..43c010e 100644
--- a/python/mlx/data/datasets/__init__.py
+++ b/python/mlx/data/datasets/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from .image_folder import load_images_from_folder
 from .imagenet import load_imagenet, load_imagenet_metadata
 from .librispeech import load_librispeech, load_librispeech_tarfile
+from .libritts_r import load_libritts_r, load_libritts_r_tarfile
 from .mnist import load_fashion_mnist, load_mnist
 from .speechcommands import load_speechcommands
 from .wikitext import load_wikitext_lines
diff --git a/python/mlx/data/datasets/libritts_r.py b/python/mlx/data/datasets/libritts_r.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aada26f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/mlx/data/datasets/libritts_r.py
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+import hashlib
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from ... import data as dx
+from .common import (
+    CACHE_DIR,
+    ensure_exists,
+    file_digest,
+    gzip_decompress,
+    urlretrieve_with_progress,
+)
+
+SPLITS = {
+    "dev-clean": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/dev_clean.tar.gz",
+        "2c1f5312914890634cc2d15783032ff3",
+    ),
+    "dev-other": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/dev_other.tar.gz",
+        "62d3a80ad8a282b6f31b3904f0507e4f",
+    ),
+    "test-clean": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/test_clean.tar.gz",
+        "4d373d453eb96c0691e598061bbafab7",
+    ),
+    "test-other": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/test_other.tar.gz",
+        "dbc0959d8bdb6d52200595cabc9995ae",
+    ),
+    "train-clean-100": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/train_clean_100.tar.gz",
+        "6df668d8f5f33e70876bfa33862ad02b",
+    ),
+    "train-clean-360": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/train_clean_360.tar.gz",
+        "382eb3e64394b3da6a559f864339b22c",
+    ),
+    "train-other-500": (
+        "https://www.openslr.org/resources/141/train_other_500.tar.gz",
+        "a37a8e9f4fe79d20601639bf23d1add8",
+    ),
+}
+
+
+def _get_transcript_file(sample):
+    audio_file = Path(bytes(sample["file"]).decode("utf-8"))
+    transcript_file = audio_file.with_suffix(".normalized.txt")
+    sample["transcript_file"] = transcript_file.as_posix().encode("utf-8")
+    return sample
+
+
+def load_libritts_r_tarfile(
+    root=None, split="dev-clean", quiet=False, validate_download=True
+):
+    """Fetch the LibriTTS-R TAR archive and return the path to it for manual processing.
+
+    Args:
+        root (Path or str, optional): The The directory to load/save the data. If
+            none is given the ``~/.cache/mlx.data/libritts_r`` is used.
+        split (str): The split to use. It should be one of dev-clean,
+            dev-other, test-clean, test-other, train-clean-100,
+            train-clean-360, train-other-500 .
+        quiet (bool): If true do not show download (and possibly decompression)
+            progress.
+    """
+    if split not in SPLITS:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Unknown libritts_r split '{split}'. It should be one of [{', '.join(SPLITS.keys())}]"
+        )
+
+    if root is None:
+        root = CACHE_DIR / "libritts_r"
+    else:
+        root = Path(root)
+    ensure_exists(root)
+
+    url, target_hash = SPLITS[split]
+    filename = Path(url).name
+    target_compressed = root / filename
+    target = root / filename.replace(".gz", "")
+
+    if not target.is_file():
+        if not target_compressed.is_file():
+            urlretrieve_with_progress(url, target_compressed, quiet=quiet)
+            if validate_download:
+                h = file_digest(target_compressed, hashlib.md5(), quiet=quiet)
+                if h.hexdigest() != target_hash:
+                    raise RuntimeError(
+                        f"[libritts_r] File download corrupted md5sums don't match. Please manually delete {str(target_compressed)}."
+                    )
+
+        gzip_decompress(target_compressed, target, quiet=quiet)
+        target_compressed.unlink()
+
+    return target
+
+
+def load_libritts_r(root=None, split="dev-clean", quiet=False, validate_download=True):
+    """Load the LibriTTS-R dataset directly from the TAR archive.
+
+    Args:
+        root (Path or str, optional): The The directory to load/save the data. If
+            none is given the ``~/.cache/mlx.data/libritts_r`` is used.
+        split (str): The split to use. It should be one of dev-clean,
+            dev-other, test-clean, test-other, train-clean-100,
+            train-clean-360, train-other-500 .
+        quiet (bool): If true do not show download (and possibly decompression)
+            progress.
+    """
+
+    target = load_libritts_r_tarfile(
+        root=root, split=split, quiet=quiet, validate_download=validate_download
+    )
+    target = str(target)
+
+    dset = (
+        dx.files_from_tar(target)
+        .to_stream()
+        .sample_transform(lambda s: s if bytes(s["file"]).endswith(b".wav") else dict())
+        .sample_transform(_get_transcript_file)
+        .read_from_tar(target, "transcript_file", "transcript")
+        .read_from_tar(target, "file", "audio")
+        .load_audio("audio", from_memory=True)
+    )
+
+    return dset