diff --git a/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/CMU_Arctic.py b/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/CMU_Arctic.py
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+++ b/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/CMU_Arctic.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from mteb.abstasks.Image.AbsTaskAny2AnyRetrieval import AbsTaskAny2AnyRetrieval
+from mteb.abstasks.TaskMetadata import TaskMetadata
+
+
+class CMUArcticA2TRetrieval(AbsTaskAny2AnyRetrieval):
+    metadata = TaskMetadata(
+        name="CMUArcticA2TRetrieval",
+        description=(
+            "Retrieve the correct transcription for an English speech segment. "
+            "The dataset is derived from the phonetically balanced CMU Arctic single-speaker TTS corpora. "
+            "The corpora contains 1150 samples based on read-aloud segments from books, which are out of copyright "
+            "and derived from the Gutenberg project."
+        ),
+        reference="http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/",
+        dataset={
+            "path": "mteb/CMU_Arctic_a2t",
+            "revision": "68e5228b82d03c20c22322ad22008464a32f960b",
+        },
+        type="Any2AnyRetrieval",
+        category="a2t",
+        modalities=["text", "audio"],
+        eval_splits=["test"],
+        eval_langs=["eng-Latn"],
+        main_score="cv_recall_at_5",
+        date=("2000-01-01", "2002-12-31"),
+        domains=["Spoken"],
+        task_subtypes=["Speech Transcription Retrieval"],
+        license="cc0-1.0",
+        annotations_creators="derived",
+        dialect=[],
+        sample_creation="found",
+        bibtex_citation=r"""
+@techreport{cmu-lti-03-177,
+  author = {Clark, Rob and Richmond, Keith},
+  institution = {Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute},
+  number = {CMU-LTI-03-177},
+  title = {A detailed report on the CMU Arctic speech database},
+  year = {2003},
+}
+""",
+    )
+
+
+class CMUArcticT2ARetrieval(AbsTaskAny2AnyRetrieval):
+    """Text-to-audio retrieval on CMU Arctic transcription ↔ audio pairs."""
+
+    metadata = TaskMetadata(
+        name="CMUArcticT2ARetrieval",
+        description=(
+            "Retrieve the correct audio segment for an English transcription. "
+            "The dataset is derived from the phonetically balanced CMU Arctic single-speaker TTS corpora. "
+            "The corpora contains 1150 audio-text pairs based on read-aloud segments from public domain books "
+            "originally sourced from the Gutenberg project."
+        ),
+        reference="http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/",
+        dataset={
+            "path": "mteb/CMU_Arctic_t2a",
+            "revision": "7c845fdfe355c226096203ffd4cdead3229950dc",
+        },
+        type="Any2AnyRetrieval",
+        category="t2a",
+        modalities=["text", "audio"],
+        eval_splits=["test"],
+        eval_langs=["eng-Latn"],
+        main_score="cv_recall_at_5",
+        date=("2000-01-01", "2002-12-31"),
+        domains=["Spoken"],
+        task_subtypes=["Speech Transcription Retrieval"],
+        license="cc0-1.0",
+        annotations_creators="derived",
+        dialect=[],
+        sample_creation="found",
+        bibtex_citation=r"""
+@techreport{cmu-lti-03-177,
+  author = {Clark, Rob and Richmond, Keith},
+  institution = {Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute},
+  number = {CMU-LTI-03-177},
+  title = {A detailed report on the CMU Arctic speech database},
+  year = {2003},
+}
+""",
+    )
diff --git a/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/__init__.py b/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/__init__.py
index 26a990cd16..c6a4ca7ebb 100644
--- a/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/__init__.py
+++ b/mteb/tasks/Audio/Any2AnyRetrieval/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from .AudioCaps import *
 from .Clotho import *
+from .CMU_Arctic import *
 from .EmoVDB import *
 from .HiFiTTS import *
 from .MACS import *