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Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

From Hugging Face: Hey HN, I’m open sourcing my Hurston-1 narrowband TTS model (Apache-2.0). It is very good with American English and does especially well with Southern American and Regional African English accents.

Source
Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
Published
First seen here
Edition
Sunday, October 25, 2026, ranked 20
Status
The company itself announced or confirmed this.
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Why it’s here
A solo open-source model release, smaller than the day's company news.
Topics
AI, Open source
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