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" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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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" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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