2025-04-23 09:31:54.AIbase.17.4k
Dia: A Revolutionary Open-Source TTS Model with Emotion and Non-Verbal Cues
Nari Labs, a two-person startup, has released Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to generate natural conversations directly from text prompts. Co-founder Toby Kim claims Dia surpasses proprietary offerings from competitors like ElevenLabs, as well as Google's NotebookLM AI podcast generation capabilities, and potentially even OpenAI's recently released gpt-4o-mini.
