Fish Audio's Drama 3 Preview is the new leading open-weights Text to Speech model, taking the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis 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 36B 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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