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Hurston-1 is an open source text-to-speech model for Southern American and African American English
Original: Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English
A new open source text-to-speech model called Hurston-1 has been released, capable of speaking in Southern American English and African American English accents. The model is hosted on Hugging Face, making it freely available to developers and researchers. The release has drawn attention for focusing on dialects that mainstream TTS systems often overlook.
Why now: Most text-to-speech models neglect Southern American and African American English dialects, so a dedicated open source release stands out to developers and linguists.
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