Yhn WorldReligion first seen 3 d ago, last 31 min ago, peak #1
Open source voice model 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 has been released, built specifically to speak Southern American English and African American English. The model is hosted publicly, and early reactions online are focused on how rarely mainstream TTS systems handle these dialects well, with some praising the representation and others raising questions about voice cloning ethics.
Why now: People are discussing it because most TTS systems ignore or poorly approximate these dialects, and an open source model aimed at them is unusual.
Hurston-1Hugging FaceGcarter08
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