Piper Hebrew β€” noa (medium)

A Piper voice for Hebrew: noa, a natural female voice, plus an English speaker (ljspeech) in the same model. Fast, CPU-friendly, standard Piper ONNX.

Type plain Hebrew β€” phonemes follow renikud (stressed IPA).

Files

File
he_IL-noa-medium.onnx Piper voice (ONNX, 22.05 kHz)
he_IL-noa-medium.onnx.json Piper config (phoneme_type: hebrew, speakers)
noa-ljspeech-step20322.pt PyTorch checkpoint (generator + discriminator) for further fine-tuning

Speakers

Speaker Id Language
noa 0 (default) Hebrew
ljspeech 1 English

Usage

echo "הוא Χ¦Χ€Χ” Χ‘Χ‘Χ¨Χ˜ וראה Χ—Χ™Χ” Χ©Χ¦Χ€Χ” Χ‘ΧžΧ™Χ." \
  | uvx --from piper-tts piper -m he_IL-noa-medium.onnx -f noa.wav

phoneme_type is hebrew: Piper converts plain Hebrew to stressed IPA with renikud, the phoneme convention this model is trained on.

Training

  • Architecture β€” Piper VITS, medium.
  • Init β€” en_US-ljspeech-medium (trained from scratch on public-domain LJSpeech), converted to multi-speaker with the speaker conditioning zero-initialized.
  • Data
    • noa β€” 24 h of Hebrew speech generated with Chatterbox, Knesset sentences, Whisper-filtered.
    • ljspeech β€” LJSpeech (public domain), ~24 h.
  • Steps β€” 20,322 (best held-out mel L1 0.405).
  • Code β€” piper-tts-finetune.

License

CC BY 4.0.

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