**[Fish Audio Completes $52 Million Seed Round Financing, Launches Next-Generation Voice Model S2.1 Pro]** BlockBeats News, July 29: According to official sources, AI voice company Fish Audio has announced the completion of a $52 million seed round financing, with specific investors yet to be disclosed. At the same time, the company officially launched its next-generation voice generation model, S2.1 Pro. Fish Audio stated that S2.1 Pro can perform voice cloning with just a 5-second audio sample, achieving generation speeds approximately twice as fast as Cartesia and at about one-sixth the cost of ElevenLabs. Additionally, the model supports fine-grained control over word-level emotions, tone, and speech speed, making it one of the most expressive voice models currently available. According to the company, several AI enterprises, including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt, have already deployed Fish Audio models in production environments. Fish Audio also announced that if enterprises adopting its voice AI services fail to reduce costs by at least 50%, they will provide one year of Fish Audio services for free. To celebrate its first anniversary, Fish Audio further announced that it will offer users a one-month free trial of the S2.1 Pro model. [Original Link]