Fish Audio turns a written script into a voiceover you can steer with tags
If you run your own business and need narration for a promo video or explainer, Fish Audio is a text-to-speech tool, meaning it reads your typed script aloud in an AI voice. You can steer the delivery by typing bracketed tags such as [whispering], [excited] or [pause] into the script. The company says it offers more than 2,000,000 voices and supports languages including English, Spanish, French and Japanese. It also advertises voice cloning, which copies a voice from a short recording. The quality claims on its homepage come from the vendor and its featured users, not independent testing.
- For
- Creators and small business owners who make promo videos, explainers or social content and would like a voiceover without booking a voice actor. No technical experience is needed for the web demo; the developer API is optional.
- Cost
- Free to start, with what Fish Audio describes as free generations each month. The provider states the free plan is for personal use only. Monetized or commercial use (YouTube, podcasts, business ads) requires a paid plan; paid plan prices are not listed on the page reviewed, so check the Pricing page before committing.
- Access
- Open online sign-up, with a text-to-speech demo on the homepage. Commercial rights require upgrading to a paid plan, according to the provider's FAQ.
Worth a quick test if you keep putting off video because you hate recording your own voice, since the tag controls make delivery easier to shape than most free readers. The catch is that anything you post for business needs a paid plan, so skip the free tier for client work.
Your movePaste a short script into the free demo at fish.audio, add a tag like [excited] or [pause], and listen to how the delivery changes. Before using the result in an ad or a monetized video, check the Pricing page for the commercial-use plan.
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