ShlokaDhara: A Multi-Speaker Sanskrit Speech Corpus for Learning Meter-Aware Prosody in Text-to-Recitation

Harshal Kausadikar, Onkar Kishor Susladkar, Prathmesh Santosh Choudhari +4

Sanskrit verse recitation is governed by $\text{Chandas}$, a strict prosodic framework defined by rhythmic $\text{Laghu}$ (light) and $\text{Guru}$ (heavy) syllables. Because…