Fish Audio Releases Drama 3 Preview: Open-Weights TTS Tops Artificial Analysis Leaderboard with Superior Pronunciation Robustness

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) · 2026-10-13 18

Fish Audio's Drama 3 Preview is the new #1 open-weights Text to Speech model on the Artificial Analysis Text to Speech leaderboard. The model also leads all models in our Pronunciation Robustness leaderboard, ahead of Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo

Drama 3 Preview is the new open weights Text to Speech model from @FishAudio, built for multi-character scenes and long-form content with voice cloning and natural-language control. Weights are available on Hugging Face under the Fish Audio Community License.

Key takeaways:

➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Drama 3 Preview scores 93.2%, ranking #1 ahead of Eleven v4 at 91.7% and Eleven v4 Turbo at 90.1%. It ranks #1 in Standalone Terms and Preserving Exact Sequences and #2 in Expanding Shorthand.

➤ Provider Voice: Drama 3 Preview has an Elo of 1,243 (+16/-16) across 1,857 appearances, ranking #10, a 101 point gain on the previous Fish Audio S2.1 Pro at 1,142.

➤ Controlled Voice: Drama 3 Preview ranks #14 with an Elo of 1,058 (+15/-15) across 1,804 appearances.

➤ Open weights: Drama 3 Preview is the #1 open weights model on all three of our Text to Speech leaderboards. On Pronunciation Robustness it leads the next open weights model, Mistral's Voxtral TTS at 78.1%, by 15 points, and in the Provider Voice Arena it is ahead of Breeze TTS 2 at 1,221. Drama 3 is a 35B parameter mixture-of-experts model (3B active) supporting 83 languages, available on Hugging Face.

➤ Pricing: Drama 3 Preview is available via the Fish Audio API at $15/1M characters, the same as S2.1 Pro, compared to Eleven v4 at$80/1M characters and Eleven v4 Turbo at $40/1M characters.

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