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Fish Audio
Expressive, emotionally controllable text-to-speech and voice cloning, with speech-to-text, voice agents, a 2M+ voice library and developer APIs.
💲 Free plan (8,000 credits/mo, personal use only); Plus $15/mo ($11/mo billed annually); Pro $100/mo; Max $999/mo; API is pay-as-you-go. Source: fish.audio (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Pros & cons
👍 Pros
- Fine-grained emotion and delivery tags
- Voice cloning from short samples, 30+ languages
- Open-weight models plus a simple TTS API
👎 Cons
- Free plan excludes commercial use
- Drama 3 is still in preview; results vary between takes
Latest release
Fish Audio Drama 3
New directable TTS model: describe how each line is performed, add sounds and pauses, and switch languages mid-script; available in the app and API (model: drama-3) with open weights on Hugging Face. Source ↗
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