Fish Audio Drama 3 ranks first among open-weight models in two speech arenas, and first in pronunciation robustness
Artificial Analysis evaluations show that Drama 3, released by Fish Audio, has an Elo of 1,278 in the Provider Voice scenario of Text to Speech (1,512 arena appearances), ranking 6th overall and 1st among open-weight models; in the Controlled Voice scenario, its Elo is 1,085 (1,958 appearances), ranking 12th overall and 1st among open-weight models. On pronunciation robustness, Drama 3 ranks 1st with 94.6% (2,157 rated clips), higher than the 93.2% of Ming-3.0-tts and Drama 3 Preview. Its generation speed is 66.6 characters per second, its pricing is $15/1M characters, and its weights are open under the Fish Audio Community License.
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Artificial Analysis ranks Drama 3 and compares its pricing across two speech arenas and a pronunciation robustness benchmark, which can be used to assess where open-source TTS stands.
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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 $16.5/1M, Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at $19.3/1M, Eleven v4 Turbo at $40/1M, Sonic 3.6 at $49/1M and Eleven v4 at $80/1M
➤ Open weights: released under the Fish Audio Community License.
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