Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English
Developers have released Hurston‑1, an open‑source text‑to‑speech engine that can generate speech in Southern American English and Afro‑English dialects. The project, posted on Hacker News, aims to broaden linguistic diversity in synthetic voices by providing models trained on under‑represented accents. Code and pretrained models are publicly available, inviting community contributions and broader adoption in applications requiring regional voice synthesis.