Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Summary
Palo Alto-based startup Fish Audio has secured $50 million in a seed funding round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from several other investors. Founded by former NVIDIA researcher Shijia Liao and led by CEO Rissa Cao, the company provides expressive and steerable AI voice models through both open-source and paid enterprise versions. Despite previous challenges regarding unauthorized voice uploads, Fish Audio has implemented an automated DMCA takedown process and plans to develop new audio understanding and speech-to-speech models to compete in the crowded synthetic voice market.
(Source:TechCrunch)