Fish Audio Raises $50 Million Seed Round as AI Voice Startup Reaches $21 Million ARR
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 28
Fish Audio Raises $50 Million Seed Round as AI Voice Startup Reaches $21 Million ARR
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 28
Summary
$50 million in seed funding will help Fish Audio build more advanced AI voice models and expand its enterprise offering, after the Palo Alto startup said investor interest accelerated.
8 million users and $21 million in annual recurring revenue underpin that raise, with more than 15,000 natural-language controls and five models launched since last year.
Fish Audio already sells paid creator plans and enterprise APIs, with customers including HeyGen, Sanas and Plaud; its latest S2.1 Pro model is available only through a paid API.
Less than 3 minutes is now the target for removing disputed voices after the company automated takedowns, responding to complaints that some creators' voices were uploaded without consent.
The funding lands in a crowded voice-generation market that includes ElevenLabs and Speechify, as Fish Audio prepares an audio-understanding model and a speech-to-speech model.