Speech & Voice Models · Reviewed 22 Oct 2026

Fish Audio

AI text-to-speech and voice cloning platform with API and creative tools.

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Fish Audio at a glance

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Fish Audio is a studio-grade AI text-to-speech and voice cloning platform S1. It serves creators and developers who need natural-sounding voices for videos, audiobooks, and applications S1. The platform offers a free tier, paid plans, and a pay-as-you-go API, with open-source models for self-hosting S49 S60.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Fish Audio is a studio-grade AI text-to-speech and voice cloning platform S1.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of producing natural, expressive voiceovers without hiring voice actors S1.
  • Intended users: Creators, developers, and teams building voice-enabled products S1.
  • Product scope: It is a web platform with a developer API, creative tools like Story Studio, and open-source models S1 S60.
  • Positioning: The vendor positions it as the best free AI voice generator with studio-quality output S1.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims ultra-low latency, comprehensive SDKs, and a community of over 2,000,000 voices S1.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
YouTube creatorsGenerate natural-sounding voiceovers for videos with free monthly generations S1.
DevelopersBuild voice-enabled products with a pay-as-you-go API for TTS, cloning, and transcription S1 S60.
Creative teamsShare a credit pool, voices, and studio projects for collaborative voiceover production S125.
Customer support teamsGive virtual agents a natural voice with minimal latency S1.
Game and animation studiosClone signature voices or craft brand personas for characters S1.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Text-to-speechGenerate studio-quality speech from text with natural pacing and emotion S1.
Voice cloningCreate a digital copy of any voice from recordings, enabling instant cloning S1 S69.
Multilingual supportGenerate speech in multiple languages with natural-sounding voices S1.
Story StudioCombine text, audio, and sound effects in a multi-track timeline for audiobooks S1 S69.
Image & Video lip-syncCreate images and videos, then lip-sync them to any Fish Audio voice for talking avatars S1 S69.
Sound effects generationGenerate unique sound effects from text descriptions S69.
Developer APIShip lifelike speech, voice cloning, and transcription with one API, including WebSocket streaming and SDKs S1 S60.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
REST APIAPIProvides text-to-speech and voice cloning endpoints for integration into apps S1 S60.
WebSocket streamingAPIEnables real-time, low-latency speech streaming S60.
Python SDKSDKOfficial SDK for building TTS and cloning into Python applications S60.
TypeScript SDKSDKOfficial SDK for TypeScript/JavaScript developers S60.
Open-source modelsOpen-sourceFish Speech, S1, and S2 models are available as open weights with a paid commercial license S60.
Self-hostingDeploymentAllows teams to self-host the model for production when needed S60.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Free Tier$0 monthly S498,000 credits (up to 7 minutes) per month S49500 characters per generation; no commercial use S49
Plus$15/month billed monthly; $66/year during promo (first-year 50% off) S49250,000 credits (up to 200 minutes) per month S49Voice design, 1 professional voice slot, commercial use S49
Pro$100/month billed monthly; $450/year during promo (first-year 50% off) S492,000,000 credits (up to 1,620 minutes) per month S493 seats, 5 professional voice slots S49
Max$999/month billed monthly; $4,494/year during promo (first-year 50% off) S4925,000,000 credits (up to 6,250 minutes) per month S4910 seats, 15 professional voice slots S49
EnterpriseCustom, volume pricing billed annually S49Custom S49Zero data retention, on-premise deployment, SOC 2 S49
API (pay-as-you-go)$15 per 1M UTF-8 bytes for TTS; $0.36 per audio hour for ASR S49Pay-as-you-go from first call S60Not established S49

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
youtube.com423.3adam ai voice, 2011x voice changer
reddit.com323.7adam ai voice, 2011x voice changer
tiktok.com314.32011x voice changer
magichour.ai114adam ai voice
json2video.com116adam ai voice
topmediai.com117adam ai voice
tuna.voicemod.net1172011x voice changer
audixa.ai118adam ai voice

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

Page typeEvidenceSource
customers](/)Fish Audiohttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersProductshttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersSolutionshttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersResourceshttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersDevelopershttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersEnterprisehttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersPricinghttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersContact Saleshttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersLog inSign Up FreeSign Up Freehttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI builds a real-time Voice Agent for 10 million users with Fish Audiohttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI lets gamers, streamers, and creators clone, change, and translate voices. With Voice Agent, the company took that experience a step further, letting AI speak for users in real time. To make it work, Dubbing AI needed TTS that was natural and expressive without sacrificing speed.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersFish Audio S2 ProText-to-Speech APIhttps://fish.audio/customers/
customerslanguages supportedhttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersReady to get started?https://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI wanted Voice Agent to feel like a person, not a voice assistanthttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI had already built a platform around voice. Its users could change their voices in real time, clone them, refine accents, and translate between languages. Voice Agent extended that product in a new direction: the AI could now speak on the user's behalf.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersThe use cases were immediate. A gamer could have the agent respond during a conversation. Someone who was too busy to make a phone call could have the agent do it for them. Someone who was temporarily unavailable could still communicate in real time.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersBut the experience only worked if the voice sounded real.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersA noticeable pause would make the interaction feel artificial. A flat or robotic response would do the same. For Dubbing AI, real-time TTS wasn't simply a matter of generating speech quickly. The voice needed to sound natural, carry emotion, preserve the speaker's identity, and work across the languages its global users needed.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersThe fastest model wasn't enough if it sounded flathttps://fish.audio/customers/

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.6%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
otherStudio-grade AI text-to-speech and voice cloning. Start using free industry-leading voice generator today with emotion control and 2m+ voices in 8 languages.https://fish.audio/
otherCreate studio-quality AI voices for videos, audiobooks, and charactershttps://fish.audio/
otherPowerful Voice-AI APIs for enterprise usershttps://fish.audio/
otherWhat languages does the best AI voice generator support for text to speech?https://fish.audio/
integrationsProduction-grade voice AI.Priced like a startup.Open like a community.https://fish.audio/developers/
integrations01234567https://fish.audio/developers/
integrations0123456789https://fish.audio/developers/
integrations01234567https://fish.audio/developers/
customersDubbing AI builds a real-time Voice Agent for 10 million users with Fish Audiohttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI lets gamers, streamers, and creators clone, change, and translate voices. With Voice Agent, the company took that experience a step further, letting AI speak for users in real time. To make it work, Dubbing AI needed TTS that was natural and expressive without sacrificing speed.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI wanted Voice Agent to feel like a person, not a voice assistanthttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI had already built a platform around voice. Its users could change their voices in real time, clone them, refine accents, and translate between languages. Voice Agent extended that product in a new direction: the AI could now speak on the user's behalf.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersA noticeable pause would make the interaction feel artificial. A flat or robotic response would do the same. For Dubbing AI, real-time TTS wasn't simply a matter of generating speech quickly. The voice needed to sound natural, carry emotion, preserve the speaker's identity, and work across the languages its global users needed.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI evaluated multiple TTS providers against the demands of the Voice Agent experience. The team narrowed the decision to five criteria: naturalness, emotional depth, voice cloning quality, latency, and multilingual support.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersDubbing AI needed a model that could clear every bar at once.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersCEO, Dubbing AIhttps://fish.audio/customers/
customersFish Audio stood out because it delivered the combination Dubbing AI needed for Voice Agent: natural speech, emotional depth, strong voice cloning, low latency, and multilingual support.https://fish.audio/customers/
customersThe distinction mattered because the criteria were interconnected. Naturalness made the voice believable. Emotional expression made it feel human. Voice cloning preserved the identity of the speaker. Low latency kept the conversation moving. Multilingual support allowed the same experience to work across Dubbing AI's global user base.https://fish.audio/customers/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap4 first-page appearances across adam ai voice, 2011x voice changer

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
nolist.aiFish Audio — Review (Score: 71/100) - nolist.aiGrounded web searchPython Go TypeScript - Open Source Yes - GitHub 24,900 - Discord ... Extremely low latency (<150ms) via WebSocket, making it viable for live conversation ... ## Weaknesses ... Documentation can be sparse compared to mature competitors like ElevenLabs ... Community reports occasional stability issues with long-form generation ... Fish Audio represents a technical pivot in the speech synthesis market, moving away from rigid, neutral-sounding narration toward highly expressive, instruction-followin

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipOur team transitioned from traditional voiceovers to Fish Audio and immediately saw drastic improvements in production efficiency and quality. It's now integral to our workflow.source
Contact and supportSame model behind HeyGen, Pictoria, Dubbing AI, and Plaud. Pay-as-you-go from your first call. No "contact us" for production rates.source
Legal and privacyPremium subscribers can use verified voices (that you own) for commercial purposes. Free plan users can only use generated content for personal, non-commercial projects. Please review our terms of service for detailed ussource
Security and complianceCustom SSO (Coming soon)source
Uptime and status pageIs Fish Audio suitable for enterprise high-volume deployments? Yes. Fish Audio's 99.9%+ uptime, high concurrency support, and enterprise contact options cover the reliability and scale requirements of enterprise deplsource
Domain registered2023-12-11—
Domain expires2028-12-11—

Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Product FAQFAQAnswers common product, workflow, pricing, privacy, ownership, API, and team questions. (source)Not dated
Google Docs Text-to-Speech Complete Tutorial: Start and Use Guide - Fish Audio BlogGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
Google Docs Voice-to-Text Complete Tutorial: How to Use Voice Input and Speech-to-Text - Fish Audio BlogGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
Best Speech to Text APIs 2026: Technical Comparison & Integration Guide - Fish Audio BlogGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
Best AI Text To Speech & Free Voice Cloning / Fish AudioProduct updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Offered as a cloud API and self-hostable models S60.S60
Platforms and appsWeb application accessible via browser S1.S1
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides REST API, WebSocket streaming, and Python/TypeScript SDKs S60.S60
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsClaims sub-second latency and ultra-low latency S1 S60.S1 S60
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2023-12-11 — Key-Systems, LLC
Domain expires2028-12-11
TLS certificateGoogle Trust Services, valid, expires 2027-01-15
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversamit.ns.cloudflare.com, alice.ns.cloudflare.com

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 96/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 9
  • Notices: 4

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed188https://fish.audio/drama-3/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://fish.audio/app/
noticeLow visible word count0https://fish.audio/app/
noticeLow visible word count44https://fish.audio/auth/
warningTitle length should be reviewed72https://fish.audio/app/image-video/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://fish.audio/app/image-video/
noticeLow visible word count0https://fish.audio/app/image-video/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://fish.audio/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://fish.audio/affiliate/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample4https://fish.audio/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample4https://fish.audio/app/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample4https://fish.audio/affiliate/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample4https://fish.audio/app/image-video/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Best AI Text To Speech & Free Voice Cloning \Fish Audio1157842 ms
200Text to Speech - Fish Audio1105143 mshttps://fish.audio/text-to-speech/
200Developers - Fish Audio1100953 mshttps://fish.audio/developers/
200Enterprise - Fish Audio11597456 mshttps://fish.audio/enterprise/
200Pricing & Plans - Fish Audio1915275 mshttps://fish.audio/plan/
200Contact Sales - Fish Audio1284206 mshttps://fish.audio/contact-sales/
200Drama 3 – Direct Every Line of AI Voice \Fish Audio11036155 ms
200Home \Fish Audio \Best AI Text To Speech & Free Voice Cloning00
200Sign In - Fish Audio \AI Voice Generation Platform14445 ms
200TTS for Voice Agents: Dubbing AI Picks Fish for 10M Users1851455 mshttps://fish.audio/customers/
200Best AI Text To Speech & Free Voice Cloning \Fish Audio1391384 ms
200AI Avatar Generator: Talking Photo & Lip Sync AI \Fish Audio11883463 ms
200AI Video Generator with Voice: Seedance, Kling, Veo \Fish Audio12189475 ms
200Free AI Image Generator: AI modelImage & Nano Banana \Fish Audio12070277 ms
200Image & Video \Fish Audio \Best AI Text To Speech & Free Voice Cloning00

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct43.6%
search43.5%
search organic41.5%
search paid2.0%
social7.0%
social organic6.8%
social paid0.2%
referrals2.8%
paid referrals1.1%
mail0.4%
gen ai1.6%
affiliate0.1%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors by name, except in blog comparisons that are not part of the official product pages. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed security certifications beyond SOC 2, no uptime statistics, and no explicit data export procedures. Open questions remain about the exact scope of the free tier's commercial restrictions and the availability of custom SSO, which is listed as "coming soon" S49.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from fish.audio, including the homepage, pricing, developers, and app pages, plus blog posts. The collection used static and browser rendering rendering, with sitemap mapping of 500 URLs. External proof search was enabled but only verified the existence of linked results, not their content. Pricing data was cross-referenced with the authoritative pricing page. Limitations include potential promotional bias in marketing pages and lack of independent verification of user testimonials.

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