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Fish Audio

Fish Audio is an AI voice generation platform offering text-to-speech, voice cloning, and emotional control for content creators and enterprise API users.

fish.audio · Mountain View

CALL NO.CS·FISH·26
Stagenot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Headcount20as of Apr 2026[10]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2025[10][11]
Money

Not disclosed in any supplied source. No round size, lead investor, or close date appears in the evidence.[14]

Fish Audio came out of HF0, described as a pre-seed incubator focused on AI founders. No investment amount from HF0 is disclosed.[3]

Three ARR figures appear across sources at different dates: $5M ARR reported around the S1 launch in October 2025; $10M ARR reported in a February 2026 interview citing 13x growth over 12 months; $13M ARR reported in a May 2026 post citing 7M+ users. The trajectory is consistent but the figures are not reconcilable to a single point in time.[2][1][13]

Not disclosed.[14]

People

Rissa Cao, Co-Founder & CEO[1][8][10]

Jiahua Liu, Co-Founder & CTO[1][8][10]

Shijia Liao, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist[1][8][10]

Shubh Jain, Growth Partner[10]

Jacob Lee, Growth And Operations Partner[10]

Signals
Mar 13 2026launchFish Audio S2 launched, trending on X News alongside Perplexity and Gemini company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Mar 10 2026launchFish Audio open-sources S2 model company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Mar 3 2026news$0 to $10M ARR in 12 months announced company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Nov 20 2025launchFish Audio S1 launched as frontier TTS model company claim, not independently confirmed[9]
Oct 20 2025launchFish Audio S1 claims best AI voice, challenges ElevenLabs[2]
Mar 1 2026otherCo-founder Zhizhuo Z. departed March 2026 company claim, not independently confirmed[10]
Comps

ElevenLabs · elevenlabs.io · Direct competitor in AI voice generation; ElevenLabs is the market leader at $330M ARR and $11B valuation; Fish Audio positions as the emotional/entertainment alternative at 6x lower pricing.[1][2]

Cartesia · cartesia.ai · Competitor in real-time TTS for voice agents and developer API use cases.[1]

Google Cloud TTS · cloud.google.com/text-to-speech · Incumbent cloud TTS; Fish Audio claims lower latency (~100ms vs ~250ms) and emotional control via inline tags.[6]

Microsoft Azure Speech · azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-speech · Incumbent cloud TTS; Fish Audio claims lower latency (~100ms vs ~220ms) and zero-shot voice cloning.[6]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[10]

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Fish Audio

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Fish Audio is an AI voice generation platform offering text-to-speech, voice cloning, and emotional control for content creators and enterprise API users.

fish.audio · Mountain View

Stagenot publicly disclosed
Raisednot publicly disclosed
Headcount20
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2025
CompsElevenLabs +3

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