Fish Audio released Drama 3 on October 13, 2026, an open-weight text-to-speech model with a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts backbone (about 3 billion parameters active per token) that accepts …
Kai, Daniel's AI assistant, moved the spoken line at the end of every answer from ElevenLabs to Fish Audio's Drama 3 model, cloning its existing voice from a 30-second sample at 1.25× speed. Drama 3 a…
INT21 reported that its self-improving agent swarms produced a working Rust inference runtime for Fish Audio's Drama 3 speech model one hour after the model's release, delivering 1.59–1.63× the throug…
Fish Audio's text-to-speech model Drama 3 is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway at 80% off for 30 days through Nov 12, with the model in preview under the name `fish-audio/drama-3`. Drama 3 lets dev…
Developer Sainigurnoor511 released Frontdesk.ai, an open-source, self-hosted AI receptionist published under the Apache-2.0 license at github.com/Sainigurnoor511/frontdesk-ai, as an independent take o…
A developer's cost and reliability breakdown of long-form text-to-speech finds that rendering 50,000 words runs roughly $4.50 on OpenAI TTS-1, $4.80 on Azure's direct console, and $66–$85 on ElevenLab…
Hume published its Voice Replication Leaderboard on September 10, 2026, testing 11 voice cloning models on 25 reference voices with 7 prompts, where Fish Audio s2-pro led the vendors covered at 4.03 o…
Fish Audio's developer pricing page lists its s2.1-pro, s2-pro and s1 text-to-speech models at $15.00 per million UTF-8 bytes, with a free counterpart model, s2.1-pro-free, priced at $0.00 per million…
Gradium, the Paris-based voice AI company spun out of the Kyutai research lab, launched Voice Design, a tool that generates new synthetic voices from a text description in seconds, live in its API and…
Gradium has made a new text-to-speech model the default for its API and Studio, claiming an 81.0% hard-case pass rate and 216 ms median time to first audio on Coval's TTS benchmark. The model, live si…
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers Fish Audio's four audio models for free through September 18, including text-to-speech and speech-to-text, with standard pricing resuming after the period unless models …
Smallest.ai closed a $13 million Series A round, bringing total funding to $21 million, and unveiled its new Hydra model, which splits voice agents into two components: a small, fast speech-to-speech …
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charge…
Fish Audio, operating as Hanabi AI Inc., has raised $52 million in seed funding led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, the AI voice startup announced on its first anniversary with $21 million in …
Fish Audio, a San Francisco startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao, has raised a $52 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, reaching $21 million in annual recu…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice developer, has raised a $50 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, the company announced. Co-founded by CEO Rissa Cao and chief scientist…
Fish Audio has raised $52 million in a seed round co-led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with the Palo Alto text-to-speech company reporting $21 million in annual recurring revenue and more th…
Fish Audio has raised $50 million in seed funding to develop its AI voice models, the company announced. The text-to-speech startup, which reports over 8 million users and $21 million in annual recurr…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice startup, raised $52 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to build expressive and steerable AI voice models for creators and enterpr…
Fish Audio, an artificial intelligence startup officially known as Hanabi AI Inc., has raised $52 million in seed funding led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to establish voice as the default i…