Toby Kim
@_doyeob_
Building Nari. Try Dia, our ultra-realistic text to dialogue model on Github and 🤗
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 👇
Model Training is the new Building Apps. 15 years ago, building a mobile app was hard. But a small technical team could pull it off. Same for model training nowadays. Only blocker is compute. But programs like TRC and other grants are fixing that. Excited for the future of AI.
2k stars in just over 12 hours! thanks for the huge support <3 (also top 5 on huggingface trending!) will be delivering big upgrades to the repo throughout this week.

🎧 Dia is a 1.6B parameter text to speech model created by Nari Labs. (Apache 2.0) 🔊 Jupyter Notebook 🥳 Thanks to @_doyeob_ ❤ Nari Labs ❤ 🌐page: tally.so/r/meokbo 🧬code: github.com/nari-labs/dia 🍊jupyte: github.com/camenduru/dia-…
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 👇