{"slug": "show-hn-vaghenu-a-meter-aware-sloka-to-chant-tts-for-sanskrit", "title": "Show HN: Vaghenu, a meter aware sloka-to-chant, TTS for Sanskrit", "summary": "A researcher has released Vāgdhenu, the world's first open-source text-to-speech system for Sanskrit chanting that is meter-aware. Built by a single person without large AI lab resources, the system aims to make Sanskrit texts more accessible to students and devotees. The model weights, training scripts, and data are publicly available.", "body_md": "A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.\n\nAnd here I am opening sourcing - ṛ () ś-- -- (TTS) . This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting. I am making the model weights, training scripts, and even data (that I meticulously collected) public - [https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/](https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/)\n\nNo large AI lab. No big engineering team. No venture-scale budget. Just a professor's conviction that one of humanity's oldest knowledge traditions deserves modern, open infrastructure.\n\nThe name comes from the Upanishadic phrase: \"Vācaṃ dhenum upāsīta\" - Like the mythical wish-fulfilling cow, Vāgdhenu is intended to make Sanskrit texts more accessible to students, teachers, researchers, and devotees everywhere.\n\nTest out the live demo here and let me know your comments - [https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/](https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/)\n\nThe entire system, from data collection to model building and demos, is built by a single person (your truly) using the powerful harness that we are building at LatentForce.\n\nI have attached a sample audio file generated by the system.\n\nP.S: Posting on behalf of my friend, their aren't on HN.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728732](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728732)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-vaghenu-a-meter-aware-sloka-to-chant-tts-for-sanskrit", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728732", "published_at": "2026-06-30 05:15:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 05:20:12.528502+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "natural-language-processing", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Vāgdhenu", "LatentForce", "Sanskrit"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-vaghenu-a-meter-aware-sloka-to-chant-tts-for-sanskrit", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-vaghenu-a-meter-aware-sloka-to-chant-tts-for-sanskrit.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-vaghenu-a-meter-aware-sloka-to-chant-tts-for-sanskrit.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-vaghenu-a-meter-aware-sloka-to-chant-tts-for-sanskrit.jsonld"}}