So much work is happening on the voice layer of AI.
Fish Audio just launched S2.1 Pro and completed a $52M Seed round.
Voice cloning now has crossed a threshold, this new S2.1 Pro can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio.
2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs. ~90ms response, fast enough for real conversation
They report 15,000+ natural-language controls, 83+ languages, 8M users, and $21M in annual recurring revenue.
Developers can place instructions such as 【whisper】, 【laugh】, or 【professional broadcast tone】 beside specific words instead of selecting preset emotions.