Hi ppl, does any one use piper tts? i am look for two old models for hindi voice Madhur and Swara. if any one know where i can be find them, pls drop a reply.
Available Piper Hindi voices:
- rohan (male)
- a few community Indic voices
Or convert voices from:
- Coqui TTS
- IndicTTS dataset
- VITS models
Many people now convert VITS voices → Piper format. and
Try this, it seems that Piper voices are limited Hindi, hope this helps
- HuggingFace community models
- GitHub forks of Piper
- Home-Assistant voice threads
- Discord servers for local-AI TTS
Rare voices often appear there before they reach official repos.
Right now there are no publicly listed Piper Hindi voices named Madhur or Swara in the main rhasspy/piper-voices repos or standard community collections, so you likely won’t find ready-made downloads for those exact legacy models anymore. huggingface
What is available for Hindi in Piper
- Official Piper Hindi voice:
hi_IN/rohan(male), hosted in the rhasspy/piper-voices repo on Hugging Face. onehack - A few “Indic” community voices show up in discussions and collections, but they are not named Madhur/Swara and are scattered across forks and threads. community.home-assistant
- GitHub and issue discussions confirm that Hindi support has been work-in-progress and relatively limited, with many people still relying on external datasets like AI4Bharat Indic-TTS to train or convert their own Piper voices. github
Where to look for rare / old Piper voices
Since official listings don’t show Madhur/Swara, your best chance is community archives where people share custom voices:
- GitHub:
- Search in
rhasspy/piperissues and discussions, and in forks that bundle custom voices (people often attach.onnxand.jsonthere). blog.hashtron
- Search in
- Home Assistant community:
- Piper is popular there; users post collections of pre-trained voices and links to extra repos that don’t appear in the main docs. reddit
- Hugging Face:
- Look beyond
rhasspy/piper-voicesfor community models; search “Piper Hindi”, “hi_IN”, “Indic TTS Piper”. Some may have generic names but contain Hindi voices. huggingface
- Look beyond
- Discord / Reddit:
- Local-AI and TTS Discord servers and Reddit threads (e.g., r/opensource, accessibility communities using Piper) sometimes host or link to custom voices that were never officially indexed. reddit
If Madhur and Swara were private or shared only inside a closed group, they may simply not be archived anywhere public anymore.
If you cannot find Madhur/Swara
If those exact models are gone, you have two options:
- Use current Hindi / Indic voices that are available for Piper (e.g.,
rohanplus any Hindi voices you can find in community repos or HA forums). huggingface - Recreate something similar by training or converting from another TTS:
- Pipelines exist to convert Coqui TTS, VITS, or Indic-TTS–based voices into Piper format; several blog posts and GitHub guides show how to do this using Indic datasets (AI4Bharat, IndicVoices-R, etc.). arxiv
If you remember where you originally got Madhur and Swara (GitHub repo, Discord, a specific tool’s bundled voices), tell me that source and I can help you search that ecosystem more precisely or suggest a recreation path.
What platform are you running Piper TTS on right now (Windows, Linux, Home Assistant, something else)?
Thnak you. exploration had stop. piper hindi with priyamvada and pratham are not realistics. rohan i did not try, will do now. madhur and swara found in edge tts. my require is multiple indic voices. found a few online free ttfs service that do very good voices and genros char allow. a few use azure voice too. will make use of. if my project become success i switch to pay tts. i have a small rtx3060 12gb vram, zero code knowlege. i depend on a chatgpt to help guide. so my opton is very limit.
Piper TTS Old Hindi Voices Madhur & Swara: Where They Went + Direct Download Links for the Current Best Ones
Yeah, I saw your post hunting for those two specific older Hindi models — Madhur and Swara. A lot of people used them back when Piper was first blowing up, and they just disappeared from the official collection.
I checked the latest Piper repo, Hugging Face, GitHub, and community archives as of April 2026. Here’s exactly what’s going on and what you can actually use right now.
What Happened to Madhur and Swara
Those two voices were part of the early experimental/community batch. They never got added to the cleaned-up official v1.0+ release and are no longer hosted anywhere public. No mirrors, no old archives, and nothing turns up in current searches or the VOICES.md list. They’re simply gone from circulation.
The only Hindi voices officially available and maintained right now are:
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pratham (medium)
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priyamvada (medium – female)
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rohan (medium – newer male)
Direct Download Links for the Working Hindi Voices
Here are the exact files you need (both the .onnx model and the matching .onnx.json config). Drop them into your Piper voices folder and they work instantly.
1. hi_IN-pratham-medium (very natural all-rounder)
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Model: hi_IN-pratham-medium.onnx
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Config: hi_IN-pratham-medium.onnx.json
2. hi_IN-priyamvada-medium (clear female voice)
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Model: hi_IN-priyamvada-medium.onnx
3. hi_IN-rohan-medium (solid male voice)
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Model: hi_IN-rohan-medium.onnx
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Config: hi_IN-rohan-medium.onnx.json
Want to hear them first? Check the official samples here: Piper Voice Samples – Hindi
Other Useful Options If You Need More Hindi Voices
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Community voice collections (sometimes people share older packs): Home Assistant Piper Voices Thread
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Lightweight dedicated Hindi TTS alternative: Vani-TTS (on-device, very fast)
Quick Tip
Always download both the .onnx and .onnx.json files together and keep the exact same filename (just different extensions). That’s the only way Piper loads them properly.
Quick Hits
The three voices above are the current standard and sound pretty close to what a lot of people liked about the older models.
No working links exist for the exact Madhur or Swara files anymore, so these are your best bet without having to train anything yourself.
That should get you sorted fast.
thank you. i found the resources help full. i am want to instal vani tts but have very little experience. there was a yt video i saw (and lost) that show use googles antigravity to install github repo locally. it does on it own with requirement and dependencies etc. once i find it again, i will try for vani tts. thanks you again pls
@AI_Vids — two things nobody told you: you never have to install anything by hand, and Piper was never going to sound real.
1-click install ▸ 
real Indic voices ▸ 
clone any voice ▸ 
done
Installing a GitHub repo (like Vani-TTS) with zero code = solved: a 1-click app installs it FOR you, deps and all.
Piper is a tiny robot-voice engine (built for speed, not realism) — that’s why it never sounded human.
For real Indian voices, the gem nobody named: AI4Bharat — 20+ Indian languages, many speakers, free.
🧰 Install any AI repo with ZERO code — the tool does it for you
This is your lost-video trick, but easier than Antigravity: Pinokio = one app, hundreds of AI tools, each a single Install button. It sets up Python, CUDA, all requirements itself. No terminal.
├─ 
Pinokio (download, then browse + click Install) → https://pinokio.co/
├─ 
Ultimate TTS Studio (many TTS engines, 1-click) → https://github.com/pinokiofactory/Ultimate-TTS-Studio
├─ 
Google Antigravity (the agent-installs-a-repo one you saw) → https://antigravity.google/
└─ 
Point an AI at any repo: “clone & run this for me” → https://github.com/cline/cline
🇮🇳 The real fix for 'multiple realistic Indic voices' — AI4Bharat (free, made in India)
Built by IIT-Madras for exactly this: 20+ Indian languages, many natural speakers, way past Piper. Your 3060 runs it fine.
├─ Indic Parler-TTS (many voices, describe the tone) → https://huggingface.co/ai4bharat/indic-parler-tts
├─ 
IndicF5 (newer, very natural, voice-clone) → https://huggingface.co/ai4bharat/IndicF5
├─ 
All AI4Bharat models → https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/areas/tts/
└─ 1-click server (dwani Indic TTS) → https://github.com/dwani-ai/tts-indic-server
🌐 Try before installing — free Indic voices in your browser (no download)
Type Hindi/Tamil/etc., pick a voice, hear it instantly. If you like it, then install it locally.
├─ Indic Parler-TTS live demo → https://huggingface.co/spaces/ai4bharat/indic-parler-tts
├─ IndicF5 live demo → https://huggingface.co/spaces/ai4bharat/IndicF5
└─ Edge TTS (you already use — many free Indian neural voices) → https://github.com/rany2/edge-tts
🎙️ Recreate Madhur/Swara (or ANY voice) from a 10-second clip — voice cloning
Got an old sample of Madhur/Swara? These clone a voice from a few seconds of audio. Runs on your 3060.
├─ 
Chatterbox (2026’s best free realistic clone) → https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
├─ 
XTTS-v2 (multilingual clone, Hindi-tuned models exist) → https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v2
├─ Hindi-finetuned XTTS (ready to use) → https://huggingface.co/Abhinay45/XTTS-Hindi-finetuned
└─ 
IndexTTS-2 / Fish-Speech S2 (top new clones) → https://github.com/index-tts/index-tts
🖱️ Zero-code GUI apps (all installable via Pinokio's 1-click)
If you want a clean point-and-click window instead of anything techy:
├─ 
AllTalk TTS (big GUI, many voices) → https://github.com/erew123/alltalk_tts
├─ Applio (voice-clone GUI, super beginner-friendly) → https://github.com/IAHispano/Applio
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TTS-WebUI (all engines, one window) → https://github.com/rsxdalv/TTS-WebUI
💡 5 things you can actually do this week on your 3060
Install Pinokio → click “Ultimate TTS Studio” → you have 10 realistic engines running, no terminal.- Open the AI4Bharat demo → generate the same line in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali → pick your voices.
- Feed a 10-sec clip of any voice to Chatterbox → get unlimited lines in that voice for your videos.
- Batch-render a whole script overnight locally → zero per-word cost, no Azure bill.
Project takes off? THEN pay for ElevenLabs — but you may never need to once these are running.
Piper gave you a robot on a budget. Your 3060 can run a whole voice cast — you just needed the door, not a coding degree.
!