Kokkur
کۄکُرVoice one
Our first Kashmiri voice: clear, steady and made for reading everyday Koshur text.
Announcing · Kashmiri text-to-speech
کۄکُر تہٕ شال
Kokkur te Shaal
Two new voices that read Kashmiri aloud, straight from its own Perso-Arabic script. Type a sentence in Koshur and hear it spoken.
Listen to the voices
Release coming soon
The voices
Two voices, one language
Kashmiri is spoken by around seven million people, yet it is rarely heard from a computer. Kokkur and Shaal are built to change that.
Shaal
شالVoice two
A second voice in the family, grown from Kokkur, with a character of its own.
Kashmiri in Perso-Arabic scriptNatural-sounding speechMade for Kashmiri speakers
Listen
Hear them side by side
Ten Kashmiri sentences, each spoken by Kokkur, Shaal and Bolbosh, another Kashmiri voice. Every row says exactly the same text, so you can compare for yourself.
The sentences are the ten male-speaker test sentences published by Bolbosh; its audio is shown unchanged with credit to its authors. Text shown is the exact input.
Release
Coming soon
Kokkur and Shaal will be released soon. The release date will be announced here.
کۄکُر تہٕ شال
Created by
Haq Nawaz Malik
Kokkur te Shaal is designed and built by Haq Nawaz Malik, to bring Kashmiri into everyday speech technology.
Responsible use
Made to be used well
- Synthetic speech should always be labelled as synthetic.
- Never use these voices to impersonate a real person or to mislead listeners.
- Use them for Kashmiri learning, reading, accessibility and research.