Fish Speech

by fishaudio

Open zero-shot voice cloning + TTS.

TL;DR

Open zero-shot voice cloning + TTS.

Best for multilingual voice cloning paired with Whisper transcription. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows

What it is

Fish Audio's open TTS / voice-cloning stack. CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

Best for: Multilingual voice cloning paired with Whisper transcription.
Watch out for: License is BY-CC-NC-SA-4.0 — non-commercial.

Install / use

pip install fish-speech

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported8
HIPAA eligibleNo

Fish Speech vs Whipscribe

FeatureFish SpeechWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages899
PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsWeb, API, MCP

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