Model
Fish Speech
Fish Speech is an open-weight AI model, released in 2023, made for developers.
An open-weight multilingual text-to-speech model family with voice cloning and emotion control.
Main jobs: Text to speech, Voice cloning. It is open source and free to use. You can use it offline on your own machine, on your own server, in the terminal, through an API and in the browser.
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At a glance
- Type
- Model
- Released
- 2023
- Galaxy
- Voice & Music
- Open source
- Yes
- Source code
- github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech
- GitHub stars
- 32,830
- How you run it
- Runs offline · Self-host · Terminal · API · Web
- Made for
- Developers
- Website
- speech.fish.audio
- Also known as
- OpenAudio · Fish Audio
What it can do
Text to speechmain jobunconfirmed
“Best text-to-speech system among both open source and closed source”— speech.fish.audio, 2026-09-24
Voice cloningmain jobunconfirmed
“Rapid Voice Cloning Fish Audio S2 supports accurate voice cloning using short reference samples (typically 10-30 seconds).”— github.com, 2026-09-24
unconfirmedproposed by a machine, awaiting calibration
Alternatives
- ElevenLabsFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- ChatterboxOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning
- CosyVoiceOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning
- F5-TTSOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning
- GPT-SoVITSOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- CapCut 剪映Free plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- DescriptFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- ChatTTSOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech
- RVCOpen source, freeAlso does: Voice cloning; no code needed
- WaveNetAlso does: Text to speech
- HeyGenFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Voice cloning; no code needed
- MoneyPrinterTurboOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech; no code needed
Connections
- Applies
- Voice Cloning
Questions
What is Fish Speech?
Fish Speech is an open-weight AI model, released in 2023, made for developers. An open-weight multilingual text-to-speech model family with voice cloning and emotion control.
Is Fish Speech free?
Yes. Fish Speech is open source and free to use.
Is Fish Speech open source?
Yes. The source code is at https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech.
Can Fish Speech run locally?
Yes. Fish Speech can run offline on your own machine. It can also be self-hosted on your own server.
What can Fish Speech do?
Main jobs: Text to speech, Voice cloning.
What are open-source alternatives to Fish Speech?
Open-source ones: Chatterbox, CosyVoice, F5-TTS, GPT-SoVITS, ChatTTS, RVC and MoneyPrinterTurbo. Others: ElevenLabs, CapCut 剪映, Descript, WaveNet and HeyGen.
Sources
- speech.fish.audio/checked 2026-09-24
- github.com/fishaudio/fish-speechchecked 2026-09-24