Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s joins Disrupt 2026

Toddler Phone Calls Family And No One Else

A hobbyist built a toddler-safe telephone that can only call pre-set family contacts. An ESP32-S3 acts as a USB host for a commercial retro-style handset and runs a minimal SIP client connecting over WiFi to a VoIP account, in this case Twilio. There are no inbound calls, so there's no risk of scam calls. Each contact gets an arcade button that lights up based on that contact's time zone, and a text-to-speech voice announces network errors or when it isn't call time.

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

Hurston-1 la mot mo hinh TTS open source duoc xay dung cho cac ngon ngu khu vuc Southern American va Afro-English. Mo hinh nay su dung kieu truyen hinh cuong (high-fidelity voice cloning) va tro chuyen duong duong (dialogue) voi hieu suat cao, duoc train tren dataset thu nho gom khoang 100k mau am thanh. Do su huu han cua ngon ngu trong dataset goc, cac nha phat trien phai giai quyet van de overfitting qua kieu truyen hinh cuong nay. Du an nay chung minh du co the xay dung mo hinh chat voice chat chat chat voi chat chat chat chat voi chat chat chat chat voi chat chat chat voi chat chat voi dataset it mau hon so voi cac TTS khac. Day la mot vi du tot ve vi open source co the giup phat trien AI cho cac ngon ngu it duoc quan tam.

Hurston-1 mang đến công nghệ TTS tiếng Anh Mỹ và Phi mở nguồn, thúc đẩy sự đa dạng trong AI.

Monday.com launches Harmony, a voice AI platform for sales calls

Monday.com has launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that calls sales leads using small task-specific models, built on tech from its $14.1M OneAI deal.