Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue

just in case, another opensource project using same name https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia

Thanks for the heads-up! We weren’t aware of the GNOME Dia project. Since we focus on speech AI, we’ll make sure to clarify that distinction.

Ditto this! Dia diagram tool user here just noticing the name clash. Good luck with your Dia!! Assuming both can exist in harmony. :-)

I know it's a bit ridiculous to see that as some kind of conspiracy, but I have seen a very long list of AI-related projects that got the same name as a famous open-source project, as if they wanted to hijack the popularity of those projects, and Dia is yet another example. It was relatively famous a few years ago and you cannot have forgotten it if you used Linux for more than a few weeks. It's almost done on purpose.

The generous interpretation is that the AI hype people just didn’t know about those other projects, i.e. that they are neither open source developers, nor users.

And another one, not open source but in AI sphere: https://www.diabrowser.com/

Fun, I can't get to it because I can't get past the "Making sure you're not a bot!" page. It's just stuck at "calculating...". I understand the desire to slow down AI bots, but . If all the gnome apps are now behind this, they just completely shut down a small-time contributor. I love to play with Gnome apps and help out with things here and there, but I'm not going to fight with this damn thing to do so.

Of course, how could they have known? Doing a basic web search before deciding on a name is so last year.

> Assuming both can exist in harmony.

I'm sure they can... talk it over.

I'll show myself out.

Maybe they only asked an LLM about it?