Fish Audio
Open-source voice cloning and TTS — competitive with ElevenLabs at a fraction of the cost.
Overview
Fish Audio: Open-Source Voice AI Rivaling ElevenLabs
Fish Audio is State-of-the-art open-source TTS and voice cloning. Voice cloning quality used to be a moat for ElevenLabs. Fish Audio's open-source models close most of that gap, and Apache 2.0 means you can ship them in commercial products without revenue-sharing.
Key Features
- State-of-the-art open-source TTS and voice cloning
- Fish-Speech-1.5 model rivals commercial alternatives
- Apache 2.0 license — full commercial use
- Strong multilingual support (40+ languages)
- Hugging Face availability + cloud platform
Ideal Use Case
Voice AI products that need ElevenLabs-class quality without the per-character API cost — particularly multilingual products that can't afford per-language model licenses.
Why Use Fish Audio
Voice cloning quality used to be a moat for ElevenLabs. Fish Audio's open-source models close most of that gap, and Apache 2.0 means you can ship them in commercial products without revenue-sharing.
FAQ
Q: vs ElevenLabs? A: ElevenLabs leads on highest-quality presets; Fish Audio leads on price (free + open) and multilingual coverage.
Q: Self-host? A: Yes — runs on consumer GPUs for inference.
tl;dr
Open-source TTS rivaling ElevenLabs. Apache 2.0. 40+ languages. Self-hostable.
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