Show HN: Vaghenu, a meter aware sloka-to-chant, TTS for Sanskrit

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.

And here I am opening sourcing Vaghenu, a meter aware sloka-to-chant, TTS for Sanskrit. 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/

No 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.

The name comes from the Upanishadic phrase: "Vācaṁ dhenum upāsīta" - Like the mythical wish-fulfilling cow, Vāgdhenu is intended to make Sanskrit texts more accessible to students, teachers, researchers, and devotees everywhere.

Test out the live demo here and let me know your comments - https://prathosh.in/vagdhenu/

The 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.

I have attached a sample audio file generated by the system.

P.S: Posting on behalf of my friend, they aren't on HN.