Introducing Fish Audio Realtime STT (preview): speech-to-text that understands the conversation, not just the words. It knows when to answer, when to keep talking, and when to stop. Ranked #1# of 20 on Cekura’s STT benchmark (2.21% overall word error rate). Built for voice agents. Try it now 👇

Fish Audio's Drama 3 Preview is the new #1# open-weights Text to Speech model on the Artificial Analysis Text to Speech leaderboard. The model also leads all models in our Pronunciation Robustness leaderboard, ahead of Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo Drama 3 Preview is the new open weights Text to Speech model from @FishAudio, built for multi-character scenes and long-form content with voice cloning and natural-language control. Weights are available on Hugging Face under the Fish Audio Community License. Key takeaways: ➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Drama 3 Preview scores 93.2%, ranking #1# ahead of Eleven v4 at 91.7% and Eleven v4 Turbo at 90.1%. It ranks #1# in Standalone Terms and Preserving Exact Sequences and #2# in Expanding Shorthand. ➤ Provider Voice: Drama 3 Preview has an Elo of 1,243 (+16/-16) across 1,857 appearances, ranking #10#, a 101 point gain on the previous Fish Audio S2.1 Pro at 1,142. ➤ Controlled Voice: Drama 3 Preview ranks #14# with an Elo of 1,058 (+15/-15) across 1,804 appearances. ➤ Open weights: Drama 3 Preview is the #1# open weights model on all three of our Text to Speech leaderboards. On Pronunciation Robustness it leads the next open weights model, Mistral's Voxtral TTS at 78.1%, by 15 points, and in the Provider Voice Arena it is ahead of Breeze TTS 2 at 1,221. Drama 3 is a 35B parameter mixture-of-experts model (3B active) supporting 83 languages, available on Hugging Face. ➤ Pricing: Drama 3 Preview is available via the Fish Audio API at $15/1M characters, the same as S2.1 Pro, compared to Eleven v4 at $80/1M characters and Eleven v4 Turbo at $40/1M characters. See more details and listen to samples below 🧵

$52M seed round. 15M+ users. But this is what we're most proud of yet. Introducing Drama 3: the most emotive and controllable TTS model in the world And yes, it's open-weight. You can now control how even a single word should sound, change its tone, and shift your voice mid-sentence. Uncle Roger was impressed too. Try it here: Comment “DRAMA” within the next 48 hours for 1 month free. If you're an enterprise your first month is on us:

We'll give you an iPhone Duo for helping us find our next hire. We're the fastest-growing voice AI company in the world, and we're only as good as who we hire next. Today 8M+ people build on our models. We're still a lean team building towards $100M ARR. And to scale faster, we're hiring new dedicated roles:

Fish Audio S2.1 Pro is now live in Europe and Australia through @slng_ai 83 languages. In-region GPU infrastructure. Closer to users, with the latency and enterprise controls production voice AI requires. Learn more:

Today, Fish Audio goes mobile. Introducing Fish Audio iOS, the full voice studio, from desktop to your pocket. 🐳Discover 2M+ voices 🔽Create multi-speaker dialogue with 80+ languages 🔽Direct emotion with open-ended tags 🔽Clone your own voice, or design one from a single prompt. Try it now.

#1# most-requested speech model on OpenRouter ahead of @Google . 2M+ builders got us here in 3 weeks. And proved the point: the only way to judge a voice is to build with it. So S2.1 Pro stays free for developers through November. If you're building anything that speaks, give it a soul. This is the era of voice, come build with us! →

Every serious TTS ships emotion tags like [whispering] [laugh] [excited]. Almost nobody uses them - nobody wants to prompt-wrangle prosody. Expressive mode fixes that: the LLM writes emotion inline, Fish Audio S2.1 Pro renders it, one toggle in @livekit Agents. Congrats to the LiveKit team on the launch! And proud of the collaboration that made this sing. 🐟

Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro. >It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio >2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs >most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production. If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free. Book a demo: To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.