Fish Audio launches S2.1 Pro voice model and says it raised a $52M seed round
LinusEkenstam · x · 2026-07-29
Fish Audio launched S2.1 Pro, a more expressive voice model that can laugh, whisper, sigh, and follow word-level emotional controls in plain text.
- It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio.
- The company says it is 2× faster than Cartesia and costs 1/6 as much as ElevenLabs.
- Fish Audio also disclosed a $52M seed round and said it already powers production use at HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt.
- To attract enterprise customers, it is offering a 1-year free deal if it cannot cut a business’s voice AI costs by 50%.
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