Piper en_US-lessac-medium (RLX staging)

Piper ONNX voice + RLX rlx-split/ subgraphs.

Field	Value
Hub id	eugenehp/piper
Kind	Converted / re-laid-out for RLX from an upstream checkpoint.
RLX crate	rlx-piper
Upstream	https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices

Quick start

hf download eugenehp/piper --local-dir .
cargo run -p rlx-piper --release -- --dir .

File highlights

• en_US-lessac-medium.onnx (60.3 MiB)
• piper.f16.gguf (58.7 MiB)
• rlx-split/flow_dec.onnx (33.5 MiB)
• rlx-split/enc_p.onnx (24.4 MiB)
• rlx-split/dp_manifest.json (14.8 KiB)
• en_US-lessac-medium.onnx.json (4.8 KiB)

Do not use as the main runtime pack

These files may be present for historical / staging reasons but are not the supported RLX load path:

• piper.f16.gguf

Community *.f16.gguf / LM-only Q4 packs are format wraps — they are not drop-in replacements for the RLX primary file above.

Run with RLX

Clone rlx-models, place this repo under weights/tts/piper (or pass the path explicitly), then:

cargo run -p rlx-piper --release -- --dir .

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Inherit upstream terms when redistributing.

Original weights and authorship: https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices

Maintenance

Cards and LFS attrs are regenerated from the local weights/ tree in rlx-models via python3 scripts/prepare_weights_hf.py.