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Two undergrads built an AI speech model to rival NotebookLM
A pair of undergrads, neither with extensive AI expertise, say that they've created an openly available AI model that can generate podcast-style clips
Weighing in at 1.6 billion parameters, Dia can generate dialogue from a script, letting users customize speakers’ tones and insert disfluencies, coughs, laughs, and other nonverbal cues. On Dia’s project pages, Nari discourages abuse of the model to impersonate, deceive, or otherwise engage in illicit campaigns, but the group says it “isn’t responsible” for misuse. In any event, Kim says Nari’s plan is to create a synthetic voice platform with a “social aspect” on top of Dia and larger, future models.
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