Fish Audio

Fish Audio is a voice-generation platform for text to speech, voice cloning, speech to text, audio translation, voice changing, audio separation, sound effects, and long-form Story Studio production. Its current S2.1 Pro model emphasizes expressive delivery: prompts can include tags such as angry, sad, embarrassed, emphasis, background laughter, pause, and long pause. The homepage advertises low-latency streaming, 30-plus languages, more than two million community voices, and voice cloning from roughly 10 to 15 seconds of reference audio. That combination suits narrated media and conversational applications, though buyers should benchmark it against ElevenLabs, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and Cleanvoice AI.

The live /pricing route returned 404, but the homepage’s Pricing link led to /plan/, which provided current figures. Free costs $0 and grants 8,000 monthly credits, about seven minutes of generation, 500 characters per generation, three public voice slots, and personal use only. Plus is $15 month-to-month or $11 per month billed as $132 annually; it includes 250,000 monthly credits, approximately 200 minutes, 15,000 characters per generation, 10 private voice slots, priority generation, Voice Design, and commercial use. Pro is $100 monthly or $75 per month billed as $900 annually, with two million monthly credits, about 1,620 minutes, three seats, 30,000 characters per generation, unlimited voice slots, and five professional voice slots. Max is $999 monthly or $749 per month billed as $8,988 annually, with 25 million monthly credits, up to 6,250 minutes, and 10 seats. Enterprise is custom and lists pay-as-you-go controls, zero data retention, on-premise deployment, and SOC 2 compliance. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over.

Fish Audio is best for creators producing character dialogue, audiobooks, localized narration, video voiceovers, or natural speech for support agents. A rigorous pilot should use actual scripts, brand pronunciations, emotional transitions, speaker turns, languages, and streaming conditions. Measure usable audio minutes per credit, regeneration rate, time to first audio, streaming latency, pronunciation errors, and reviewer preference against a human recording or another vendor. Do not evaluate only short English demos; long-form consistency and difficult proper nouns expose more meaningful differences.

The strengths are granular emotional control, fast cloning, generous generation allowances, a browser studio, and production APIs. The limitations are non-rolling credits, annual commitment for the lowest advertised rates, plan-dependent commercial rights, and serious consent risk around cloned voices. A realistic clone can enable impersonation, so teams need documented speaker permission, restricted model access, audit logs, and a process for takedown and revocation. Free outputs are not licensed for commercial use. Fish Audio stands out for expressive controls and a broad voice toolkit at competitive minute allowances, but output quality, rights, moderation, and latency must be tested for the exact language and deployment rather than inferred from curated demos.