# Fish Audio

> AI text-to-speech, instant voice cloning, and emotional speech control

Fish Audio provides AI text-to-speech and fast voice cloning using as little as 10 to 15 seconds of audio. It stands out for its inline emotional and vocal tags—such as chuckling, whispering, and pausing—and a massive library of community voices.

Website: https://fish.audio/

## What it is for

- Clone your voice from a short audio clip to narrate videos without re-recording
- Add expressive cues like laughter, sighs, and whispering directly inside script text
- Generate multilingual voiceovers for YouTube tutorials, ads, and audiobooks
- Integrate low-latency text-to-speech into conversational AI agents via API

## Features

- Instant voice cloning from 10 to 30 seconds of audio input
- Granular emotion and expression control via inline text tags (whisper, sigh, chuckle, etc.)
- Extensive library of over 2 million user-generated and preset voices
- Multilingual voice generation supporting English, Japanese, French, Arabic, and more
- Speech-to-text transcription with speaker and emotion detection
- Avatar lip-syncing compatible with video generation models
- Developer API and SDKs for real-time streaming and custom integrations

## Pricing

Freemium. Free plan available for personal use; paid tiers required for commercial licensing and higher volume

## Details

- Type: Web app
- Category: [AI](https://xiry.app/topics/ai.md)
- Open source: no
- Platforms: Web, API
- For: Video creators, podcasters, game developers, and engineers building voice agents
- Alternative to: ElevenLabs, Play.ht, Murf AI
- Tags: voice cloning, text to speech, tts, audio, voiceover, ai voice

## Why it was saved

- [@duekneeel, 6 February 2025](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFuiMh8s5u7/): Enables users to clone their own voice from as little as 10 to 30 seconds of audio recording and generate realistic voiceovers for free.
- [@FishAudio, 31 July 2026](https://x.com/FishAudio/status/2083105969572139140): Key specs for anyone choosing a voice AI: clones a voice from 5 seconds of audio; 2x faster than Cartesia and 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs; word-level control over emotion, intonation and pacing; already in production at HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas and OpenArt. Offer: 1 month of S2.1 Pro Pro API free via https://s.fish.audio/nrmvtn.

## Compare

- [Alternatives to Murf AI](https://xiry.app/alternatives/murf-ai.md)
- [Alternatives to Play.ht](https://xiry.app/alternatives/play-ht.md)
- [Alternatives to ElevenLabs](https://xiry.app/alternatives/elevenlabs.md)

## Related

- [Artlist AI Voiceover](https://xiry.app/resources/artlist-ai-voiceover): AI voice generator offering realistic narration, voice cloning, and speech-to-speech tools. (Web app, Paid)
- [Lovevoice AI](https://xiry.app/resources/lovevoice-ai): Online text-to-speech generator with 300 realistic voices across 70+ languages. (Web app, Freemium)
- [NaturalReader](https://xiry.app/resources/naturalreader): AI text-to-speech platform with multilingual voices and voice cloning. (Web app, Freemium)
- [SPEECHMA](https://xiry.app/resources/speechma): Free online text-to-speech converter with hundreds of multilingual voices (Web app, Freemium)
- [Coqui TTS](https://xiry.app/resources/coqui-tts): Open-source deep learning toolkit for text-to-speech synthesis and voice cloning. (GitHub repo, Open source)
- [Murf AI](https://xiry.app/resources/murf-ai): AI voice generator and text-to-speech platform for voiceovers and conversational agents (Web app, Freemium)

Updated 3 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/fish-audio

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