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Fish Audio

Fish Audio is a text-to-speech and voice-cloning service, used through a web studio or an API, with a large library of community-made voices. The company also releases open-weight speech models such as S2 Pro and Drama 3.

#17 in Video & Audio ToolsText to Speech & AI VoiceFree plan

Who it's for

Best for

  • Audiobook narrators who need expressive delivery and line-by-line tags
  • Developers who want an API or open weights to run locally

Not for

  • Teams that need consistent takes on the first try

Pricing

Free plan$0
Plus$15/mo
Pro$100/mo
Max$999/mo

Features

  • Emotion tags

    Write tags such as whisper, sigh or a described feeling into the text to direct delivery line by line.

  • 15-second voice cloning

    Clone a voice from a short sample recorded or uploaded in the browser.

  • 2M+ voice library

    Browse more than two million community and professional voices in eight languages.

  • Open-weight models

    Models such as S2 Pro and Drama 3 are published as open weights under the Fish Audio license.

  • Developer API

    Real-time text-to-speech and cloning through an API and MCP server.

What users say

Pros

  • Natural delivery and prosody stay easy to listen to over long narration.
  • Voice cloning produces remarkably natural results across diverse speech samples.
  • The open Drama 3 model runs locally on 8 to 16 GB home graphics cards.

Cons

  • Usable takes often need many regenerations, and credits drain fast.
  • Output is uneven: quality shifts, stiff reads, odd upspeak and voice breaks.
  • Refunds and cancellations are hard, and customer service can go quiet for weeks.
  • Running Drama 3 locally takes long setup, generates slower than real time, and some takes come out silent.

A selection of the review sources we used:

Summarized from public user reviews and community discussions. View details

Global Traffic Rank

Top 10k

Alternatives

Fish AudioElevenLabsSpeechifyCartesia
Rank#17 in category#6 in category#24 in category#29 in category
Free planYesYesYesYes
ProEasy-listening long reads, lifelike clones, runs on home GPUsMost natural voices, top-rated transcription, cheap for hobby useNatural voices, cheaper than audiobooks, textbook listeningStreaming-first design, working agent pipelines
Better forReading PDFs, documents, and web pages aloud with synchronized text highlightingBuilding live conversational voice agents that need ultra-low streaming latency
Weaker atControlling line-by-line vocal delivery with emotion tags such as whispers or sighsProviding open-weight models to download and run locally on consumer GPUs