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

Hurston-1 is an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for phone use, capable of generating accented English speech, specifically Southern American and Afro-English. It is steered by plain-language voice descriptions and built using a corpus that includes scripted reading, conversational speech, and approximately 10 hours of real phone calls with AI voice agents from consented contributors. The model demonstrates high confidence in various African accents, such as East African (0.98) and Nigerian (0.94), while showing low confidence in general American (0.02) and Southern American (0.01) accents.