April 22, 2025 10:48 AM VentureBeat made with Midjourney Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts — and one of its creators claims it surpasses the performance of competing proprietary offerings from the likes of ElevenLabs, Goo...