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Hurston-1 open source TTS speaks 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, released by developer Gcarter08 on Hugging Face, is designed to speak Southern American and African American English dialects. It is drawing attention on Hacker News, where commenters are discussing the technical approach and the significance of speech models that capture dialects often underserved by mainstream TTS systems.
Why now: The release of an open source TTS model catering to dialects that mainstream speech tools typically ignore is novel and sparks debate about representation and quality in speech AI.
Hurston-1Hugging FaceGcarter08Hacker News
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