Wednesday11 Nov 2026
Fish Audio launches full-duplex Live 3 voice model API with 186 ms response decisions
Published on 10 November 2026 for English voice agents on the Fish Agent Platform and API, Live 3 trains conversational turn-taking directly into the speech model so agents listen while speaking.
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60-second takeaway: Fish Audio releases its full-duplex Live 3 English voice model API, deciding when to acknowledge, wait or yield in as little as 186 ms.
Why it matters: Learning backchannels, hesitation pauses, and true barge-ins inside the speech model removes brittle silence-timeout tuning that causes support and ordering voice bots to talk over callers.
- Architecture and language
- English full-duplex conversational speech model paired with a separate agent reasoning and tools layer
- Turn-taking latency
- Learned Acknowledge, Wait and Yield decisions in as little as 186 ms across 2 million+ voices
- Platform promo pricing
- $0.035 per minute on Fish Agent Platform (50% off $0.07 standard rate through 31 December 2026; $5 free credit)
- Telephony add-ons
- $0.01 per minute for PSTN calls; $1.20 per month rented Twilio numbers or free bring-your-own-carrier SIP