Fish Audio · Open weights · Read 2026-10-27
Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview: latency, voice quality, price and languages
- Rank
- not ranked
- Speed tier
- Fast enough
- P95
- 209.3 ms
- Price / 1M chars
- $15
Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview is an open-weights text-to-speech model from Fish Audio. Coval measures a median of 146.0 ms and a P95 of 209.3 ms to first audio, which puts it in the Fast enough speed tier. It is not ranked because Coval does not tag it multilingual. Artificial Analysis or Speko tested it in 2 languages.
This summary is generated from the measures below; it is not a vendor description. Measures a source does not hold are shown as n/a and are never estimated.
Speed (Coval, 30 days, US East, English)
| Speed tier | Fast enough |
| Median time to first audio | 146.0 ms |
| P90 | 183.2 ms |
| P95 | 209.3 ms |
| Mean | 165.6 ms |
| Standard deviation | 184.0 ms |
| Calls in the window | 1,402 |
| Cekura median, streamed text | 312 ms |
| Cekura median, full text | 321 ms |
Voice quality (never added together)
| Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,245 ±14 |
| Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,296 ±30 |
| Naturalness (Speko) | n/a |
| Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5) | 4.54 |
Accuracy
| Reading accuracy (Cekura) | 91.3% |
| Numbers (Cekura) | 88% |
| Codes (Cekura) | 87% |
| Context (Cekura) | 100% |
| Medical terms (Cekura) | 100% |
| Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis) | 93.2% |
| Numbers and dates (Speko score) | n/a |
| Word error rate (Coval) | 1.7% |
Price per 1 million characters
| Range across sources | $15 |
| Artificial Analysis | $15 |
| Speko | n/a |
| Coval | n/a |
| Cekura | n/a |
Coverage
| Access | Open weights |
| Streaming | Measured |
| Coval tags | n/a |
| Rated for | Knowledge sharing, Assistants, Entertainment, Customer service, Voice agents |
| Languages tested | Chinese, German |
Not collected
- Naturalness (Speko naturalness): not measured by Speko (reading of 2026-10-27)
- Numbers and dates (Speko pronunciation score): not measured by Speko (reading of 2026-10-27)
Sources
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech (read 2026-10-27)
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice (read 2026-10-27)
- https://benchmarks.cekura.ai/text-to-speech (read 2026-10-27)
- https://benchmarks-api-6wxgp27p2a-ue.a.run.app/v1/results/aggregates?benchmark=TTS&window=30d&include_series=false (read 2026-10-27)
- Vendor site: https://fish.audio/
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Frequently asked questions
- How fast is Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview?
- Coval measures a median time to first audio of 146.0 ms and a P95 of 209.3 ms for Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview, over 30 days from the US East in English (Fast enough tier).
- How much does Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview cost?
- The benchmarks print a list price of $15 per million characters for Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview.
- Which languages was Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview tested in?
- Artificial Analysis or Speko tested Fish Audio Drama 3 Preview in Chinese, German.