vagdhenu

Vāgdhenu — Sanskrit Chant TTS (weights)

Model weights for Vāgdhenu, a single-speaker Sanskrit chant (pārāyaṇa) TTS. MOS ~4.6 (expert listener); conjuncts including retroflex aspirates render 100% correctly.

Files

The base DiT + vocab.txt come from ai4bharat/IndicF5 (auto-downloaded by the repo's setup).

Architecture

IndicF5 / F5-TTS — flow-matching DiT (OT-CFM mel-infilling, dim 1024 / depth 22 / heads 16, ~337M params, no native duration or pitch head) → BigVGAN-v2 vocoder. Sanskrit is routed through Kannada script (Devanagari triggers Hindi schwa-deletion).

Usage

See the GitHub repo — bash scripts/setup.sh downloads these weights to models/, then python src/render.py ... renders a Devanagari verse + meter to a chanted wav.

The key lever is the reference (F5 prosody is text-driven, not designable): supply the prosody you want as a clean, exactly-matched reference clip (the half-reference rule — ref_text must match the reference audio's spoken span on a word/daṇḍa boundary). A per-meter reference bank ships with the repo.

Training

Fine-tuned from IndicF5 on a ~5 h single-speaker Sanskrit chant corpus (prathoshap/vagdhenu-data); the production voice adds a voice-steering retrain on paired clips. Full method in the repo's docs/TECH_REPORT.md.

Intended use & limitations

Synthesis of classical Sanskrit chant (pārāyaṇa) for recitation, study, and accessibility. No Vedic svaras. Prosody is reference-driven, not arbitrarily designable. The voice is the author's own — please use responsibly and do not impersonate.

License & attribution

Our contribution under Apache-2.0. Built on AI4Bharat IndicF5 (MIT), NVIDIA BigVGAN-v2, and F5-TTS — the vocoder is a BigVGAN-v2 derivative; please observe NVIDIA's BigVGAN license terms. Cite Vāgdhenu (BibTeX with the technical report).