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Fish Audio S2 Technical Report

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  • Fish Audio S2 is an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) system that supports multi-speaker, multi-turn generation with instruction-following control using natural-language descriptions.
  • The system uses a multi-stage training approach and a staged data pipeline involving video and speech captioning, voice quality assessment, and reward modeling to scale training.
  • Fish Audio S2 provides production-ready streaming inference with a real-time factor (RTF) of 0.195 and low latency, with code, model weights, and an SGLang-based inference engine publicly available.
  • The open-source release aims to advance the state of TTS technology, encouraging customizable voice creation through accessible resources on GitHub, Hugging Face, and the Fish Audio website.

Computer Science > Sound

arXiv:2603.08823 (cs)
[Submitted on 9 Mar 2026]

Title:Fish Audio S2 Technical Report

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Abstract:We introduce Fish Audio S2, an open-sourced text-to-speech system featuring multi-speaker, multi-turn generation, and, most importantly, instruction-following control via natural-language descriptions. To scale training, we develop a multi-stage training recipe together with a staged data pipeline covering video captioning and speech captioning, voice-quality assessment, and reward modeling. To push the frontier of open-source TTS, we release our model weights, fine-tuning code, and an SGLang-based inference engine. The inference engine is production-ready for streaming, achieving an RTF of 0.195 and a time-to-first-audio below 100 this http URL code and weights are available on GitHub (this https URL) and Hugging Face (this https URL). We highly encourage readers to visit this https URL to try custom voices.
Subjects: Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.08823 [cs.SD]
  (or arXiv:2603.08823v1 [cs.SD] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.08823
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From: Yifan Cheng [view email]
[v1] Mon, 9 Mar 2026 18:34:33 UTC (7,527 KB)
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