Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

(prathosh.in)

76 points | by subinalex 4 days ago

9 comments

  • lordleft 6 minutes ago
    Forgive my ignorance; I'm not a Sanskrit speaker (Malayalam is my first language) -- but I love the sound of Sanskrit.

    I have lots of questions: what's the use case for this? Primarily religious / liturgical? It also seems that the fact that this tool works means that any arbitrary Sanskrit sentence can be translated into a chant by some sort of procedure (dare I say algorithm)? I'm terribly curious and fascinated by this!

  • sebmellen 25 minutes ago
    This must be insanely difficult to get right. I was not expecting such an impressive result from a site that looks so vibe coded! The look is underselling how good this is.
    • ks2048 17 minutes ago
      I was put off by the vibed-design, but everything looks well done and well-explained.

      From what I can tell, it used 5.3 hours of single voice fine-tune data.

  • ks2048 34 minutes ago
    It was based on an existing TTS, IndicT5. I wonder how different is “Sanskrit Chanting” to languages it could already do, like Hindi. Is it largely the glyph—to-phoneme that needs relearning? Or pitch control? Or more?
  • ultrasounder 47 minutes ago
    Very nice implementation. I tried developing my own to practice Santhai(repeat thrice) to learn Upnishads and this tool would be at the center of my workflow. A locally installable version would be even great! Kudos. Dhanyosmi :-)
  • bhargav 1 hour ago
    Amazing tool and very accurate, even on some esoteric texts I tested. Wish it let me just dump an entire stotra :)
  • nopin 1 hour ago
    This is so so so cool. the UX of the app could be better.
  • orsenthil 1 hour ago
    This is Excellent!
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