Fish Speech

Multilingual TTS with zero-shot voice cloning and streaming support.

Open SourceSelf HostedOffline CapableGPU Required (4GB+ VRAM)
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About

Fish Speech is the open-source text-to-speech project from Fish Audio, built around zero-shot voice cloning: from a 10 to 30 second reference sample it reproduces a speaker's timbre, speaking style, and emotional delivery without any fine-tuning. The repository now hosts the newer S-series generation of the model, which covers more than 80 languages, supports inline delivery tags such as whispering, laughing, or a professional broadcast tone, and can place multiple speakers in a single generated output. The current architecture pairs a large slow autoregressive decoder for semantics with a small fast one for acoustic detail, refined with reinforcement learning post-training; on server GPUs the project reports a real-time factor around 0.2 with roughly 100 ms to first audio. Inference runs through a web UI, command line, or API server, with Docker images available and a GPU recommended. The code is openly available while model weights carry Fish Audio's own research license, so commercial deployments need to review its terms.

Should you use Fish Speech?

Pick it when

Pick Fish Speech when you need zero-shot cloning of timbre and emotional style from a 10 to 30 second sample across 80-plus languages, with inline tags like whispering and several speakers in one output, for internal or licensed use.

Look elsewhere when

Skip it if Fish Audio's research license on the weights blocks your commercial launch; CosyVoice or Chatterbox clone under permissive terms. On low-VRAM machines, start with FishAudio S1-mini instead.

Alternatives to Fish Speech

  • CosyVoice

    Apache-2.0 weights with nine languages, dialect control, and 150 ms streaming, a cleaner commercial path, though far fewer languages than Fish Speech.

  • FishAudio S1-mini

    Compact distilled variant from the same project, lighter on VRAM and faster, at some cost in fidelity, and its weights are CC-BY-NC-SA, so still non-commercial.

  • XTTS

    Clones across 17 languages from a 6 s clip with low-latency streaming, but its weights also restrict commercial use and Coqui the company has shut down.

  • Chatterbox TTS

    Permissively licensed zero-shot cloning with emotion and accent control and a fast Turbo variant, but without Fish Speech's 80-language reach.

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Details

Price
Free
Platform
Local/Desktop
Difficulty
Intermediate (3/5)
License
Apache-2.0
Minimum VRAM
4 GB
Added
Apr 3, 2026

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