Fish Audio Drama 3 (Preview)

Fish Audio's open-weights 35B mixture-of-experts text-to-speech model for multi-speaker, long-form scenes.

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Text to speech
Models · Local · 1,244 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)

Vendor: Fish Audio
Family: Fish Audio Drama
Released: 14 Oct 2026
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: Fish Audio Research License
Parameters: 35.9B (3B active)
GPU memory to run locally: ~48 GB (Official checkpoint is a 41.5 GB download (FP8 experts, other weights bf16), so a 48 GB-class GPU; an unofficial int4 build (fishaudio/drama-3-int4) is 22.1 GB. Sizes from the int4 model card.)
API price: $15 per 1M characters (Artificial Analysis normalised price for Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview (USD per 1M characters).)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)	1,244	`Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview` Provider Voice Arena, all categories and accents; rank 10 of 96, 1999 appearances, 95% CI ±15; raw value from the page's embedded data (shown rounded); no last-updated date shown, so as_of = retrieval date.	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai