Fish Audio

Fish Audio combines a strong open-source pedigree, rooted in the Fish Speech and OpenAudio research lineage, with a genuinely broad commercial feature set. Ten-second voice cloning, emotion-tag control for expressive delivery, and a community library exceeding two million voices give it real depth for creators, and side tools like Story Studio, a voice changer, audio separation, and translation extend it well past basic text-to-speech into a fuller audio production suite. The Professional Voice Clone option, with ownership verification and optional revenue share for voice owners, is a thoughtful answer to the voice-cloning consent problems that have dogged this category, though the sheer size of the open community library raises the same rights questions every large voice platform faces. Pricing is a clear strength: an accessible free tier with commercial use allowed, transparent pay-as-you-go API pricing at $15 per million bytes, and paid tiers scaling from $11 up to enterprise-grade SOC 2 and on-prem options. Voice naturalness and emotional expressiveness are competitive with category leaders like ElevenLabs, though ElevenLabs still tends to edge it out on subtle prosody in longer-form narration. Overall a well-rounded, fairly priced voice platform.