England see off USA to return to winning ways

England's Red Roses return to winning ways, but without entirely vanquishing doubts over their position at the top of the women's game, as they see off the United States.

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New top story on Hacker News: Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram

Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram
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Man Utd stick with Carrick - inside a turbulent 48 hours at Old Trafford

BBC Sport looks at the 48 hours that led to Manchester United deciding to keep under-pressure Michael Carrick as their head coach for Saturday's trip to Chelsea.

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Kane prematurely announced as Ballon d'Or winner - but he wasn't only one

Harry Kane's dream of winning the Ballon d'Or seemed as if it had come true on Monday when the organisers released an article claiming he had won the award.

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English
5 by Gcarter08 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I’m open sourcing my Hurston-1 narrowband TTS model (Apache-2.0). It is very good with American English and does especially well with Southern American and Regional African English accents. Destined AI is based in Atlanta, and I built this because I’m amazed by what AI can do, and I wanted to help introduce and welcome more people to feel comfortable using and interacting with AI. Since 2021, I’ve been collecting fully consented voice data from over 20,000 people, 1M audio recordings, and over 1,800 hrs of audio captured to date. For this model, I used a small part of the data, 136 hrs, to finetune Maya1 and expand it’s capabilities. Hurston-1 is a narrowband TTS model that focuses the output on telephone use because that is still where most of these voices will be heard. I’ve used it to support customers such as Amazon and Salesforce and generated over half-mill revenue with it. Now I’m open sourcing it to help unlock opportunities for others as well. Limitations: this model doesn’t maintain the exact same voice across prompts and doesn’t support voice cloning. For many use cases, this is fine but maybe not so - if you’re creating podcasts. This is the first release - I’m already working on the next version with improvements. I would appreciate, if anyone is interested in this space, download the model from huggingface, check it out and let me know any feedback. Also, open to connecting with others in this space as well.

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Isak finally living up to price tag as Liverpool patience rewarded

Alexander Isak scores his sixth Premier League goal of the season as Liverpool make it four wins out of their last four under Andoni Iraola.

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New top story on Hacker News: Glymphatic clearance to alleviate traumatic brain edema& Alzheimer's pathology

Glymphatic clearance to alleviate traumatic brain edema& Alzheimer's pathology
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