Fish Audio
Expressive text-to-speech and voice cloning in 30+ languages
Overview
Fish Audio generates speech with emotion and effect tags such as [angry], [excited], [laughing] and [pause], clones a voice from a short sample (the site says 15 seconds), and speaks 30+ languages. It also covers speech-to-text, avatar lipsync, audio separation and translation. The library holds 2,000,000+ voices.
It raised a $52M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today and reports 8M+ users and $21M ARR. Its open-source Fish Speech project has 31,000+ GitHub stars. Some roundups say the round was $50M; TechCrunch reports $52M.
Key Features
Text-to-speech: Expressive, emotion-controllable real-time voices.
Voice cloning: Clone a voice from a short sample.
30+ languages: Speak in any language with any voice.
Extra tools: Speech-to-text, avatar lipsync, audio separation, translation, Story Studio.
API and open source: REST API and SDKs; Fish Speech and other models on GitHub.
Pricing
Starting price
$15/mo
Free: $0. 8,000 credits a month, up to 7 minutes of generation, 500 characters per generation, 3 public voice slots. The plan grid lists commercial use, but the stated terms say free-plan output is for personal, non-commercial projects only.
Plus: $15 per month billed monthly, or $11 per month billed annually ($132 a year). 250,000 credits, up to 200 minutes, 15,000 characters per generation, unlimited public plus 10 private voices, 1 professional voice, priority generation and Voice Design.
Pro: $100 per month billed monthly, or $75 per month billed annually ($900 a year). 2,000,000 credits, up to 1,620 minutes, 30,000 characters per generation, 5 professional voices, 3 team seats.
Max: $999 per month billed monthly, or $749 per month billed annually ($8,988 a year). 25,000,000 credits, up to 6,250 minutes, 15 professional voices, 10 team seats.
Enterprise: Custom volume pricing billed annually: zero data retention, on-premise deployment, SOC2, pay-as-you-go with organization controls. API use is pay-as-you-go.
Pros
Strong expressiveness: Inline emotion and effect tags give real control over delivery.
Huge voice library: 2,000,000+ community voices to choose from.
Developer friendly: API, SDKs and open-source models.
Free plan to test: 8,000 free credits a month before paying.
Cons
Free plan is personal use only: The terms say free users can only use generated content for personal, non-commercial projects; commercial use needs a paid plan.
Plus tier is small: Generations are capped at 15,000 characters, and only 10 private voice slots are included.
Steep top tiers: Pro is $75 a month on annual billing ($100 monthly) and Max is $749 ($999 monthly).
Community voice quality varies: The 2M voice library is user-contributed.
What Makes It Unique
Fish Audio pairs highly controllable, tag-driven expressiveness with an open-source model lineage (Fish Speech) and a very large community voice library.
Kay Score
8.2
/ 10
