AI voice generation startup Fish Audio has closed a $52 million seed round, with Coreline Ventures and Capital Today leading the financing. Other participating investors included 359 Capital, Parable and Play Time. The company was founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao. According to TechCrunch, Liao started the project after finding existing AI synthetic voice products lacking in expressiveness, then trained the first voice generation model on a single GPU and open-sourced it. Over the past year, Fish Audio has released five models in total, including four voice generation models and one speech-to-text model. The funding marks a new capital milestone for the startup as it continues to build out its product lineup in AI voice technology.
AI voice generation startup Fish Audio said it has raised $52 million in a seed funding round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable and Play Time, among other investors.
Fish Audio was founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao. TechCrunch reported that Liao started the company after becoming dissatisfied with the limited expressiveness of AI synthetic voice products on the market. He then trained the first voice generation model on a single GPU and open-sourced it.
Over the past year, Fish Audio has launched five models, including four voice generation models and one speech-to-text model.
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