2025-04-23
Two undergrads. One still in the military. Zero funding. One ridiculous goal: build a TTS model that rivals NotebookLM Podcast, ElevenLabs Studio, and Sesame CSM. Somehow... we pulled it off. Here's how 👇 [video]
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Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding”
A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) …
A fun comparison between Dia-1.6B versus Sesame's CSM-1B on emotional conversations. (contains strong language) 👑Who won? [video]
VentureBeat
Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding”
A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) …
+3.4k stars on Github. #2 trending on Hugging Face. All in under 24 hours. Thanks for all the support <3 Here's Dia speaking about our launch: [video]
VentureBeat
Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding”
A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) …