Fish Audio raises $52M seed and launches S2.1 Pro voice model publicly
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-07-29
Fish Audio says it has raised a $52M seed round and is launching S2.1 Pro publicly.
- The company claims S2.1 Pro can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio.
- It says the model is 2× faster than Cartesia and costs 1/6 as much as ElevenLabs.
- Fish Audio also says S2.1 Pro offers word-level control over emotion, intonation, and pacing.
- The company says frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt are already running the model in production.
- For businesses, it is offering a free year if it cannot cut voice-AI costs by 50%; it is also giving away one month of S2.1 Pro for its first birthday.
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