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

Destined AI has open-sourced Hurston-1, a narrowband text-to-speech (TTS) model that focuses on telephone use and excels at speaking Southern American and Afro-English accents. The model was built using 136 hours of data from 20,000 people and has already generated over $500,000 in revenue for the company. The model is available on Hugging Face and the company is open to feedback and connections with others in the field. The model is a fine-tune of Maya1 and is the first release in Destined AI's ClarityVoice family.