Vaghenu brings meter-aware Sanskrit chant synthesis to the browser
Hacker News Show HN·1w·init0
init0 built Vaghenu, a text-to-speech tool purpose-built for Sanskrit slokas that understands classical meter rather than treating the language as generic phonetic input. Most TTS engines flatten Sanskrit into something unrecognizable; getting the prosody right matters for religious and scholarly use. It's a narrow, well-defined problem that a solo maker is far better positioned to care about than any big speech lab.
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