Kashmiri text-to-speech resources
Single- and multi-speaker recordings and the models that read Kashmiri text aloud.
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- Papers
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Datasets 8
Bolbosh Kashmiri TTS Dataset — Gaash Lab
About 40,000 Kashmiri utterances with transcripts (33,182 train, 4,542 validation, 2,272 test) curated from IndicVoices-R and RASA for text-to-speech; the training data behind Bolbosh. Mostly spontaneous speech; the RASA part keeps its original licence.
Chaashini
Continuously growing corpus of clean, single-speaker, studio-grade speech in 33 Indian languages (about 2,955 hours), each clip passed through a multi-stage quality gate. Includes Kashmiri.
KTTS Single Speaker Dataset (Kashmiri TTS)
Structured redistribution of the KTTS single-speaker corpus: 2,984 recordings by one male native speaker at 48 kHz with aligned Perso-Arabic transcriptions, for training and evaluating TTS.
Rasa — Expressive TTS
Expressive multilingual text-to-speech dataset for Indian languages, targeting at least 20 hours per speaker with a female and a male voice per language. Kashmiri is included. Funded by Bhashini (MeitY).
UrduSpeech — Urdu & Kashmiri Speech Corpus
Multi-style, professionally recorded speech corpus covering Urdu and Kashmiri, designed for both text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition.
YODAS2-Sidon
Version of the YouTube-derived YODAS-2 corpus cleaned with the Sidon speech-restoration model for speech synthesis and spoken language modelling. Has a Kashmiri subset.
IndicVoices-R — Kashmiri
Speech-synthesis-oriented release derived from IndicVoices, with a Kashmiri split of mostly spontaneous recordings.
Kashmiri TTS Dataset (HNM)
Kashmiri speech with transcripts prepared for text-to-speech training.
Models 4
Bolbosh — Kashmiri TTS
Script-aware flow-matching TTS purpose-built for Kashmiri, with a 272-grapheme vocabulary covering the language's diacritics and vowel distinctions. Current state of the art for Kashmiri speech synthesis at MOS 3.63.
Matcha-TTS Kashmiri — Gaash Lab
A Kashmiri text-to-speech model based on Matcha-TTS, from Gaash Lab, NIT Srinagar.
Yemberzal TTS — Kashmiri
Kashmiri text-to-speech from kenpath/svara-tts-v1 (Llama-3.2-3B with SNAC audio tokens), trained on IndicVoices-R then RASA. The card reports 37.6% WER from an ASR transcriber whose floor on real speech is 36.5%.
Indic Parler-TTS
Multilingual text-to-speech model covering Indian languages with reported support for Kashmiri. Provides a general-purpose TTS baseline that Kashmiri-specific systems such as Bolbosh are measured against.
Papers 1
Tools 3
Bolbosh — TTS code
Open-source code for Bolbosh, the Kashmiri text-to-speech framework from Gaash Lab, NIT Srinagar.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS — Kashmiri
Google's Gemini text-to-speech model lists Kashmiri in both Perso-Arabic and Devanagari script.
Bhasini — National Language Translation Mission
Official Indian government AI platform with Kashmiri translation, ASR, and TTS APIs. Free to use for developers. Includes models for all 22 scheduled languages.
Research groups 2
AI4Bharat
The most significant producer of open Indic language technology. Behind IndicTrans2, the BPCC corpora, IndicBERT, IndicConformer ASR and Indic Parler-TTS — most of the general-purpose models that currently support Kashmiri at all.
NIT Srinagar — Language & Systems Research
Engineering research base in the Valley. Contributed the Bolbosh Kashmiri TTS system in collaboration with the University of Kashmir, currently the strongest Kashmiri speech synthesis result.