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Remember when AI couldn't draw a hand?
Seven fingers, knuckles pointing backwards. And the AI spaghetti videos.
That was three years ago. Images are done now.
Video is close enough that you scrolled past AI ads this week and clocked exactly zero of them.
Code writes itself and there are like 40 coding agents.
AI voice spent that entire stretch sounding like the lady voice in a 2014 GPS.
Flat, evenly spaced and every sentence landing with the same weight, like it's reading from a phone book.
Here's why it stayed broken.
Bad images are funny. You screenshot the seven fingers, it goes viral for being bad, someone fixes it.
Bad audio is just boring. It doesn't fail spectacularly, so it never got that pressure.
The bigger problem was the scoring.
The whole industry graded AI voices on whether you could make out the words.
So the models learned to over pronounce everything, hitting every syllable like a newsreader. Perfectly clear but robotic.
Everyone was chasing a score that had nothing to do with sounding human.
Meanwhile a small open-source team was doing something harder.
Their lead researcher, an ex-NVIDIA engineer, went all in on an approach the rest of the field had written off. Two years early.
No funding announcements or launch tour. He just put the whole thing on GitHub for free. It's sitting at 50,000+ stars now.
Then they ran the test everyone else avoided.
For 10 days they piped real users through their model and every big competitor with the listener never told which was which. Thousands of real people, real scripts.
Whichever voice you actually preferred, they logged it. Theirs came out on top.
It beat ElevenLabs about 6 times out of 10, head to head. It beat OpenAI's voice model 8 times out of 10.
The gap was widest on the breathing, the pauses, the little hesitations, which is exactly the stuff that makes a voice sound like a person instead of a machine reading.
They ran on real users rather than a lab, which is more than most of these claims can say.
That's Fish Audio. This week they shipped S2.1 Pro:
- Clone anyone's voice from 15 seconds of audio
- Fast enough to hold a live conversation
- 83 languages, one model
- Type [whisper] or [sigh] mid-sentence and it does it
- Around 70% cheaper than ElevenLabs
- Free to download and run yourself
Voice was the last thing on the list. Around 20 people with a free repo got there before other billion dollar companies did.
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