New Urdu Voice: Aegis

I've trained a new Urdu (ur_PK) female voice for Piper called Aegis, to complement the existing male voice Fasih.

Details

• Language: Urdu (ur_PK)
• Gender: Female
• Quality: Medium
• Sample rate: 22050 Hz
• Phonemizer: eSpeak (ur)
• Key: ur_PK-aegis_female-medium

Download

https://huggingface.co/mahwizzzz/piper-voice-ur-aegis-female

Motivation

Urdu currently has only a male Piper voice in piper-voices. A female option helps accessibility (screen readers, apps).

Training (summary)

Fine-tuned from the Fasih Urdu checkpoint on a large filtered Urdu corpus synthesized using eSpeak IPA phonemes.

Samples

Happy to adjust packaging for ur/ur_PK/aegis_female/medium/.