Harud

ہَرُد

A Kashmiri voice. Write in Kashmiri, or the way you text it in English letters, and hear it spoken.

Ask Harud

Ask anything in Kashmiri, in Kashlish or in English. An open model thinks of the answer, it is translated into Kashmiri, and Naar reads it out.

Checking the brain on Kaggle…

Listen

Kashmiri proverbs from the Kashmiri Wikipedia, a news headline and a few everyday lines, all spoken by Harud.

Kashmir, a short history. Narrated in Kashmiri by Harud, English captions. Text from ks.wikipedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Compare

The same sentences three ways: the studio recording of a real speaker, Yemberzal, and Harud. None of these sentences were in Harud's training data.

Voices

Two studio voices and 61 voices of Kashmiri speakers from across the Valley. Each says the same sentence. Pick one to use it above.

How well it reads

Measured on 50 held-out sentences with an independent Kashmiri speech recogniser. Lower is better; the real speaker sets the floor.

9.7%Harud, characters misheard on names and long sentences

11.2%The real studio recording, same sentences

10.6%Yemberzal, same sentences

0.87Voice match to the real speaker (1.0 is identical)

Harud is a fine-tune of svara-tts (Apache-2.0). Trained on the RASA studio recordings via the Bolbosh dataset (GAASH Lab, CC BY 4.0) and IndicVoices Kashmiri (AI4Bharat, CC BY 4.0). Kashlish is converted using a word index built from those transcripts, so common words convert best; check rare words before speaking. Answers in Ask Harud come from Qwen3-4B-Instruct (Apache-2.0) and are translated with IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT). The Dal Lake background is an AI-generated image made with ChatGPT.