# Fish Audio launches Live 3, a full-duplex voice model for voice agents

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/news/fish-audio-live-3-full-duplex-voice-model · Evidence: Reported · First seen: 2026-11-11 06:16 UTC · Source published: not stated by the source · Brief published: 2026-11-11 08:01 UTC · Updated: 2026-11-11 08:01 UTC · Author: Agentic Weekly

> Fish Audio launched Live 3 on Nov 10, 2026, a full-duplex voice model that keeps listening while it talks; the company says it "can decide to respond in as little as 186 milliseconds." Its agent pricing page lists $0.035 per minute, a 50% launch discount that ends Dec 31, 2026.

Models in this brief: [Live 3](https://theagenticweekly.com/models/fish-audio-live-3)

## What changed

- Live 3 is a full-duplex speech model: it keeps listening while it speaks, so pauses, quick acknowledgments and mid-sentence corrections can change what it does next, according to Fish Audio's launch post.
- Turn-taking is learned inside the speech model rather than handled by separate rules and thresholds in a pipeline; Fish Audio says it trained Live 3 on real human conversations to learn when to acknowledge, wait, respond or stop.
- It separates backchannel sounds such as "yeah" or "mm-hmm" from real interruptions: it keeps talking through the first and stops for the second. Fish Audio says it can decide to respond in as little as 186 milliseconds.
- Live 3 speaks English only at launch. It is available on the Fish Agent Platform and through the API, and enterprises can deploy it on-premises.
- Fish Audio's agent page lists $0.035 per minute including Live 3 (50% off $0.07 until Dec 31, 2026), plus $0.01 per minute for phone calls and $1.20 a month per phone number; both full-duplex and cascaded agents are supported.

## In the source's words

> "Live 3 can decide to respond in as little as 186 milliseconds."
> (Fish Audio blog, Introducing Live 3, https://fish.audio/blog/introducing-live-3/)

## What we have not verified

- We did not run Live 3; the 186 ms figure and the turn-taking behaviour are Fish Audio's own claims, and the post publishes no benchmark against other voice-agent models.
- The post does not say whether Live 3 weights will be released or give a model size.
- The launch price is a limited-time discount; we did not confirm what the rate becomes after Dec 31, 2026 beyond the listed $0.07 per minute original price.
- No date is given for languages other than English.

## Timeline

- Source published: not stated by the source
- First seen by our watcher: 2026-11-11 06:16 UTC (via MarkTechPost (signal); verified against Fish Audio's launch post)
- Brief published: 2026-11-11 08:01 UTC

## Sources

- [Fish Audio blog: Introducing Live 3](https://fish.audio/blog/introducing-live-3/) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-11)
- [Fish Audio: Live 3 and voice agents pricing](https://fish.audio/live3/) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-11)
- [MarkTechPost: Fish Audio releases Live 3](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/10/fish-audio-live-3-full-duplex-voice-model/) (fetched 2026-11-11)

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## How to cite

Agentic Weekly, "Fish Audio launches Live 3, a full-duplex voice model for voice agents", published 2026-11-11 08:01 UTC, https://theagenticweekly.com/news/fish-audio-live-3-full-duplex-voice-model