Orksay Peon voice

An English Piper text-to-speech voice for Orksay, inspired by the Warcraft III Orc Peon. The model runs locally on CPU; Orksay applies the included equalization filter after synthesis.

Files

• model.onnx — Piper voice model.
• model.onnx.json — Piper configuration and inference settings.
• eq.npy — FIR equalization filter used by Orksay. Piper alone does not apply this filter.

The voice uses the en-us eSpeak phoneme frontend and produces 22,050 Hz audio. The ONNX file is stored with Git LFS.

Use with Orksay

Install the speech runtime from Orksay, then copy the three voice files into its data directory:

voice_dir="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/orksay/voice"
mkdir -p "$voice_dir"
cp model.onnx model.onnx.json eq.npy "$voice_dir/"

Run these commands from a checkout of this model repository. In the Orksay project directory, run:

bash ./install-speech.sh
./orksay say "Ready to work!" --output /tmp/orksay.wav

Playback requires PipeWire's pw-play; saving a WAV does not. Orksay loads the three files from the same directory and applies eq.npy after Piper synthesis.

Peon

This voice is derived from Warcraft III recordings. The Peon audio pack is declared CC-BY-NC-4.0. The training script can be found in the linked orksay git repo above.