Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
TechCrunch AI Ivan Mehta
Fish Audio, a voice generation startup founded by a former NVIDIA researcher, raised $50 million in seed funding led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today. The company has 8 million users, generates $21 million in annual recurring revenue, and offers a library of over 15,000 natural language controls for expressive and steerable AI voices. Fish Audio plans to expand its product offerings with audio understanding and speech-to-speech models while addressing creator concerns about voice consent through automated takedown processes completed in under 3 minutes.
Why it matters
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
