# Shijia Liao

> Shijia Liao is founder and Chief Scientist of Fish Audio. Fish Audio Drama 3, Fish Audio S2 Pro, Fish Audio TTS API and Fish Audio Voice Cloning API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder and Chief Scientist, Fish Audio.

Shijia Liao founded Fish Audio and is its Chief Scientist, writing on the company's research, including Fish Speech and the open-weight Drama 3 text-to-speech model.

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## What Shijia builds

- [Fish Audio Drama 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-drama-3.md), graded C, 55.6/100, in Text-to-speech. Fish Audio Drama 3 is Fish Audio's open-weight text-to-speech model, a 35B mixture of experts with 3B active built on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, that clones voices, takes plain-language direction and voices multi-speaker scenes, under the Fish Audio Community License. Founder and Chief Scientist, Fish Audio, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Fish Audio S2 Pro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-s2-pro.md), graded D, 52.5/100, in Text-to-speech. Fish Audio S2 Pro is Fish Audio's open-weight text-to-speech model of March 2026, a 4B plus 0.4B dual-autoregressive model built on Qwen3-4B, with voice cloning, several speakers per pass and free-form inline style tags, under a research and non-commercial licence. Founder and Chief Scientist, Fish Audio, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Fish Audio TTS API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-tts.md), graded C, 60.8/100, in Text-to-speech. Fish Audio's API turns text into speech with the `s2.1-pro` model in 83 languages, over a REST endpoint, a timestamped stream and a WebSocket that accepts text as it is produced. Founder and Chief Scientist, Fish Audio, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Fish Audio Voice Cloning API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fish-audio-voice-cloning.md), graded C, 60.1/100, in Voice cloning & custom voices. Fish Audio's API and hosted MCP server create reusable voice clones from audio samples, and the API generates candidate voices from text prompts. Founder and Chief Scientist, Fish Audio, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Jiahua Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jiahua-liu/), Co-founder and CTO, Fish Audio
- [Rissa Cao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rissa-cao/), Co-founder and CEO, Fish Audio

## Backed by

- [Coreline Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coreline-ventures/)
- [Capital Today](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/capital-today/)
- [359 Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/359-capital/)
- [Play Time](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/play-time/)
- [HF0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hf0/)
- [645 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/645-ventures/)
- [Parable](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/parable/)
- [Carya Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/carya-venture-partners/)
- [Alphaist Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alphaist-partners/)
- [Bayhouse Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bayhouse-ventures/)

## Questions

### Who is Shijia Liao?

Shijia Liao founded Fish Audio and is its Chief Scientist, writing on the company's research, including Fish Speech and the open-weight Drama 3 text-to-speech model.

### What does Fish Audio make?

Anchor Terminal lists Fish Audio Drama 3, Fish Audio S2 Pro, Fish Audio TTS API and Fish Audio Voice Cloning API from Fish Audio. Fish Audio Drama 3 is Fish Audio's open-weight text-to-speech model, a 35B mixture of experts with 3B active built on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, that clones voices, takes plain-language direction and voices multi-speaker scenes, under the Fish Audio Community License.

### Who has invested in Fish Audio?

The sources our research read name Coreline Ventures, Capital Today, 359 Capital, Play Time, HF0, 645 Ventures, Parable, Carya Venture Partners, Alphaist Partners and Bayhouse Ventures.

### How are Shijia's tools graded?

Fish Audio Drama 3 is graded C, 55.6 out of 100; Fish Audio S2 Pro is graded D, 52.5 out of 100; Fish Audio TTS API is graded C, 60.8 out of 100; Fish Audio Voice Cloning API is graded C, 60.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://fish.audio/
- https://fish.audio/blog/fish-audio-drama-3/

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