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Fish Audio Drama 3 Technical Report

AuthorsDawei Han, Shidong Li, Shijia Liao, Jiahua Liu, Songting Liu, Qingzheng Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Xin Chen, Yifan Cheng, Tianyu Li, Gangin Park, Xuehao Yang, Chang Zeng, Haoyang Zhang, Ruoyi Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang

October 16, 2026 2 min read
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The one-line take

Fish Audio Drama 3 is an open-source speech model designed to perform, revise, and edit expressive multi-character audio from text.

Key results

35B
Total model parameters

Size of the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B mixture-of-experts backbone.

3B
Active parameters per token

Backbone parameters activated for each token.

271
Single-stream decode rate

Frames per second on one NVIDIA H200; Fish Audio S2 reaches 177.

36%
FP8 throughput improvement

Per-stream gain at concurrency 32 over BF16 experts.

58.2%
Step-Audio-Edit emotion accuracy

Accuracy after three revision rounds, starting from 55.5%.

81.8%
Step-Audio-Edit style accuracy

Accuracy after three revision rounds, starting from 76.5%.

What the paper found

Fish Audio Drama 3 turns speech synthesis into directed performance: it supports multi-reference voice cloning, natural-language direction, multi-turn revisions, multi-character scenes, speech editing by infilling, and streaming generation in one model. Initialized from Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, its hybrid Gated DeltaNet and full-attention mixture-of-experts backbone has 35B parameters, with 3B active per token; a 13-layer codebook multi-token-prediction decoder uses full-sequence context to generate acoustic detail. For post-training, the model uses Group Relative Policy Optimization with a single learned human-preference reward, rather than transcription or speaker-similarity rewards that can penalize expressive delivery. On an NVIDIA H200, it decodes 271 frames per second for one stream, versus 177 for Fish Audio S2, and FP8 experts raise per-stream throughput by 36% at concurrency 32 compared with BF16 experts. On the 24-language MiniMax Multilingual Testset, it records the lowest error rates among compared systems in Chinese, Dutch, English, German, and Turkish. On Step-Audio-Edit, with Gemini-2.5-Pro judging the takes, three revision rounds raise emotion accuracy from 55.5% to 58.2% and style accuracy from 76.5% to 81.8%. On Ming-Freeform-Audio-Edit, its word error rate is lower than Cartesia Sonic-3’s in both English and Chinese. The model is released with open weights.

Original abstract

We introduce Fish Audio Drama 3, an open-source speech generation model that turns text into directed performances, built on a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts backbone that activates 3B parameters per token. It clones voices from multiple references, follows natural-language direction, revises a take when the next turn gives a note, voices multi-character scenes, edits existing speech by infilling, and synthesizes long-form and streaming audio. Multi-turn revision, scene dubbing, editing by infilling, and streaming text input are new in Drama 3, all in one model. Drama 3 pairs the hybrid linear-attention backbone with a new codebook multi-token-prediction audio decoder that predicts the acoustic codebooks of each frame in dedicated layers that attend over the entire sequence. The model is trained with a three-stage pre-training recipe, instruction fine-tuning, and large-batch reinforcement learning whose only reward is a single learned model of human preference. Its inference engine decodes a single stream at 271 frames per second on one H200, against 177 for Fish Audio S2, although Drama 3 has more than seven times as many parameters. The model weights are available on GitHub (https://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speech) and Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/fishaudio/drama-3), and inference is available through SGLang-Omni (https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang-omni). We highly encourage readers to visit https://fish.audio to direct their own performances.

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