Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

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 :-)

Re: Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

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Post by ks2048 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

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?

Re: Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

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Post by sebmellen » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 2:23 AM UTC

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.

Re: Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System

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Post by ks2048 » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #9

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.

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.