mahwizzzz/piper-voice-ur-aegis-female

ur_PK-aegis_female-medium

Female Urdu Piper TTS voice (medium quality), part of the Aegis Urdu TTS pipeline. Complements the male Urdu voice Fasih with a female option.

Language	Urdu (ur_PK)
Gender	Female
Quality	Medium
Sample rate	22050 Hz
Phonemizer	eSpeak (ur)

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Files

ur_PK-aegis_female-medium.onnx
ur_PK-aegis_female-medium.onnx.json
samples/speaker_0.mp3

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Usage

echo 'یہ ایک سادہ جملہ ہے۔' | piper \
  --model ur_PK-aegis_female-medium.onnx \
  --config ur_PK-aegis_female-medium.onnx.json \
  --output_file output.wav

Local paths:

piper \
  --model ./ur_PK-aegis_female-medium.onnx \
  --config ./ur_PK-aegis_female-medium.onnx.json \
  --output_file output.wav

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Training (short)

• Fine-tuned from Fasih Urdu male checkpoint
• Phonemes: eSpeak-ng ur IPA
• Part of the aegis-tts training pipeline

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Base Model & Provenance

This voice is fine-tuned from Fasih (ur_PK-male-medium) by IhorShevchuk, available at: https://huggingface.co/IhorShevchuk/piper-voice-ur-fasih

Fasih was itself trained from a Hindi (hi_IN) medium checkpoint (Rohan), via rhasspy/piper-checkpoints.

Attribution

This model is licensed under MIT, which requires retaining this copyright and license notice in all copies or substantial portions of the work, including redistributions and re-uploads.

If you use, fine-tune, or redistribute this model, please retain attribution to:

Muhammad Mahwiz Khalil (Proxima AI) — https://huggingface.co/mahwizzzz

Re-uploading this model without attribution is a violation of the MIT license terms.

Citation

@misc{aegis_urdu_tts_2026,
  author    = {Khalil, Muhammad Mahwiz},
  title     = {Aegis: Female Urdu Piper TTS Voice (ur_PK-aegis_female-medium)},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/mahwizzzz/piper-voice-ur-aegis-female}
}

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License

MIT Copyright (c) 2026 Muhammad Mahwiz Khalil (Proxima AI). See the LICENSE file for full terms. The copyright notice above must be preserved in any copy or redistribution of this model.