Fish Audio
Shares rank 13 of 18 text-to-speech models by recommenders
People recommend it for natural-sounding speech, especially long narration, and fine-grained control of tone and emotion. No common caveat.
People recommend it for natural-sounding speech, especially long narration, and fine-grained control of tone and emotion. No common caveat.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Natural, easy-to-listen speech quality
“which I have found to be the most natural out of the many models I have tested”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: CopyKitten – Discord Voice Cloning” “yield much better prosody and are much easier to listen to for long runs”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech” “for the final render, they're much better”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech” - Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks”
Strong prosody for long narration
“yield much better prosody and are much easier to listen to for long runs”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech” “for the final render, they're much better”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech”
Other text-to-speech models people recommend
The four most recommended other text-to-speech models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | 59 | 20 | 75% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Kokoro TTS | 59 | 9 | 87% | 11 | 1 mo3 owners | Approved |
| Pocket TTS | 41 | 16 | 72% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Qwen3-TTS | 41 | 13 | 76% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Fish AudioThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“their S2 Pro has been very decent”
“for the final render, they're much better”
“yield much better prosody and are much easier to listen to for long runs”
“Fish Audio launched in our old segment and built a massive user base and revenue stream.”
“allows even larger and essentially unbounded finegrained control of tone and emotion”
“which I have found to be the most natural out of the many models I have tested”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.