Fish Audio Open-Sources Drama 3: Natural-Language Directed Voice Model
Fish Audio released a preview of its voice model Drama 3 on October 16, with several bloggers covering and testing it around the same time. The model ships with fully open weights and supports 83 languages.
Confirmed
- Core feature: supports natural-language "director-style" performance instructions—simply describe emotion, intent, pacing, pauses in plain text within the script, or even specify which words should change, allowing precise control over how each line is delivered rather than just reading the script verbatim
- Supports audio inpainting
- Covers 83 languages with fully open weights
- Released as a Preview
Why it matters
- mhdfaran, a blogger who says he has tested hundreds of voice models, calls Drama 3 the most emotionally expressive voice model to date, and its open weights lower the barrier to entry
- VibeMarketer argues its value lies not just in realism but in controllability—instruction-driven tone and emotional expression turns "reading a script" into "acting," and its "speaking Japanese through it" example illustrates cross-language potential
- The combination of natural-language emotion control and audio inpainting enables finer post-production adjustments to speech, with practical implications for dubbing and multilingual content creation
2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-17 · 6 related posts
- Episode 1: Fish Audio Open-Sources Drama 3, Tops Open-Weight TTS Charts Past Eleven v4(2026-10-14, 30 posts)
- Episode 2: Drama3 TTS Model Lands in audio.cpp with Up to 5x Real-Time Speed(2026-10-16, 2 posts)
- Episode 3: Fish Audio Open-Sources Drama 3: Natural-Language Directed Voice Model(2026-10-16, 6 posts)
Primary sources
- Fish Audio's open-weight Drama 3 voice model claims top emotive quality across 83 languages — mhdfaran ·
- Fish Audio's Drama 3: open-weight AI voice you direct in plain English, 83 languages — mhdfaran ·
- Fish Audio's Drama 3 tops open TTS rankings with in-transcript tags for emotion and SFX — petewoodbridge ·
- [source] Fish Audio's open-weight Drama 3 voice model claims top emotive quality across 83 languages — mhdfaran · 2026-10-16
- [source] Fish Audio's Drama 3: open-weight AI voice you direct in plain English, 83 languages — mhdfaran · 2026-10-16
- Fish Audio drops Drama 3: open-weight voice model covering 83 languages — VibeMarketer_ · 2026-10-16
- Fish Audio drops open-weight Drama 3 voice model with 83 languages and NL directing — VibeMarketer_ · 2026-10-16
- Fish Audio's Drama 3 directs AI voice emotion via natural language, open weights — Aiden_Tech_Ai · 2026-10-17
- [source] Fish Audio's Drama 3 tops open TTS rankings with in-transcript tags for emotion and SFX — petewoodbridge · 2026-10-17