Fish Audio drops S2.1 Pro, takes aim at ElevenLabs with $52M seed
Fish Audio just secured $52M in seed funding and launched S2.1 Pro, a new voice cloning model that requires just five seconds of sample audio. The startup claims it runs twice as fast as Cartesia at one-sixth the cost of ElevenLabs, featuring word-level control over pacing and emotion. Frontier AI firms like HeyGen and LiveKit are already running it in production.