unicef/piper-si_LK-ashoka-medium

Piper TTS -- Sinhala (si_LK) medium

A Piper text-to-speech voice for Sinhala, exported as ONNX.

Samples

ආයුබෝවන්.

සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් කතා කිරීමට මෙම මාදිලිය භාවිතා කළ හැකිය.

මේ ලස්සන දිනයක් වගේ පෙනෙනවා.

අද කාලගුණය ඉතා සුන්දරයි.

Model Details

Language	Sinhala (si_LK)
Quality	medium
Base model	Fine-tuned from Hindi (hi_IN) via rhasspy/piper-checkpoints
Sample rate	22050 Hz
Format	ONNX

Usage

With Piper CLI

pip install piper-tts
echo 'ආයුබෝවන්.' | piper --model si_LK-ashoka-medium.onnx --output_file output.wav

With NVDA

Download both files and place them in NVDA's Piper voices directory:

• si_LK-ashoka-medium.onnx
• si_LK-ashoka-medium.onnx.json

Programmatic (Python)

import subprocess
text = "ආයුබෝවන්."
subprocess.run(
    ["piper", "--model", "si_LK-ashoka-medium.onnx", "--output_file", "output.wav"],
    input=text.encode(),
)

Files

File	Description
si_LK-ashoka-medium.onnx	ONNX model
si_LK-ashoka-medium.onnx.json	Piper config (phoneme map, sample rate, etc.)
samples/	Audio samples generated by this model

Training

Trained using the Piper EC2 Training Pipeline. Fine-tuned from the Hindi (hi/hi_IN/rohan/medium) checkpoint.