diff --git a/TTS/tts/datasets/formatters.py b/TTS/tts/datasets/formatters.py
index eadf0529..a9216166 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/datasets/formatters.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/datasets/formatters.py
@@ -581,19 +581,26 @@ def artic(root_path, meta_file, **kwargs):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
     return items
 
 
-def artic_multispeaker(root_path, meta_file, **kwargs): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+def artic_multispeaker(root_path, meta_file, ignored_speakers=None): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
     """Normalizes the ARTIC multi-speaker meta data files to TTS format
-    
+
     Args:
         root_path (str): path to the artic dataset
         meta_file (str): name of the meta file containing names of wav to select and
                          transcripts of the corresponding utterances
                          !Must be the same for all speakers!
+        ignore_speakers (List[str]): list of ignored speakers (or None)
+    
     Returns:
         List[List[str]]: List of (text, wav_path, speaker_name) associated with each utterance
     """
     items = []
     # Loop over speakers: speaker names are subdirs of `root_path`
     for pth in glob(f"{root_path}/*/**/", recursive=False):
+        speaker_name = os.path.basename(pth)
+        # Ignore speakers
+        if isinstance(ignored_speakers, list):
+            if speaker_name in ignored_speakers:
+                continue
         items.extend(artic(pth, meta_file))
     return items