Dia 1.6B: The Open-Source Voice Model That Speaks (and Laughs) Like Us | 29th Apr 2025
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Can open-source really rival ElevenLabs? With Dia 1.6B by Nari Labs—it just might.
In this episode of the Colaberry AI Podcast, we explore Dia, a powerful new text-to-dialogue model capable of generating lifelike conversations between multiple speakers—including emotional tones and even non-verbal sounds like laughter or sighs.
We cover:
🗣️ How Dia 1.6B turns plain text into expressive, multi-speaker dialogue
🎭 Emotion and tone control via audio reference input
🧬 Voice cloning from short samples
🔓 Why this open-source model is a serious contender against proprietary solutions…
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