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Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
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.
TL;DR
- Fish Audio raised $52 million in a seed funding round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today.
- The startup offers over 15,000 natural language controls for its AI voice models.
- Fish Audio has over 8 million users and generates $21 million in annual recurring revenue.
- The company's open-source repository has over 31,000 stars on GitHub.
- Fish Audio launched five models in the last year, including speech-generation and speech-to-text.
- The company faces challenges with voice ownership and consent, but has automated its takedown process.
- Future plans include releasing an audio understanding model and a speech-to-speech model.