Fish Audio Drama 3 Tops Open-Source TTS Leaderboards
Fish Audio released Drama 3, which ranks as the #1 open-weights model on Artificial Analysis Speech Arenas. It achieved the top score in Pronunciation Robustness (94.6%) among all models and offers a competitive price of $15 per million characters.
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Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) · 2026-10-29 15
Fish Audio Drama 3 is the #1 open weights model on both Artificial Analysis Speech Arenas, and #1 of all models on Pronunciation Robustness
@FishAudio has released Drama 3. We evaluated it across both Speech Arenas and our Pronunciation Robustness benchmark.
Key takeaways:
➤ Text to Speech, Provider Voice: Drama 3 scores an Elo of 1,278 across 1,512 arena appearances, ranking #6 overall and #1 among open weights models, 38 points clear of its own Drama 3 Preview at 1,240 and 50 ahead of BreezeBlue's Breeze TTS 2 at 1,228
➤ Text to Speech, Controlled Voice: Drama 3 scores 1,085 across 1,958 appearances, ranking #12 overall and #1 among open weights models, ahead of Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts at 1,068 and its own Preview at 1,063
➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Drama 3 scores 94.6% across 2,157 rated spans, ranking #1, ahead of Ming-3.0-tts and Drama 3 Preview, both at 93.2%
➤ Speed: Drama 3 generates 66.6 characters per second, ahead of its own Drama 3 Preview at 60.7 and Murf's Speech Gen 2 at 63.0, and behind ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 at 70.0 and v3 Conversational at 66.8
➤ Pricing: Drama 3 is priced at $15/1M characters. Every model ranked above it on Provider Voice costs more: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at 19.3/1M, Eleven v4 Turbo at 49/1M and Eleven v4 at $80/1M
➤ Open weights: released under the Fish Audio Community License.
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