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

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Hurston-1 is an open-source text-to-speech model, a fine-tune of Maya1 under Apache-2.0, built to speak Southern American and several African-accented English voices that most TTS systems handle poorly.

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