nari-labs · First MLX build 23 Apr 2025

Dia-1.6B

MLX Audio apache-2.0

A 1.6B parameter text to speech model from nari-labs, with 5 MLX builds, from fp16 to 3-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.6B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
Dia-1.6B
Memory needed
10 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
6.4 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
1.5K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text to speech
Audio
MLX builds
5
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/Dia-1.6B

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
Dia-1.6B-fp16 fp16 3.2 GB 6 GB 609
Dia-1.6B-4bit 4-bit 3.2 GB 6 GB 140
Dia-1.6B-6bit 6-bit 3.2 GB 6 GB 96
Dia-1.6B-3bit 3-bit 3.2 GB 6 GB 22
Dia-1.6B Unstated 6.4 GB 10 GB 1.5K

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.