The Rise of the “Super Smash Bros. Fish”: When Nintendo’s Iconic Announcer Met AI Voice Generation

Few audio cues in gaming history carry as much immediate, Pavlovian adrenaline as the booming baritone of the Super Smash Bros. announcer. Whether it is the gritty crunch of the Nintendo 64 original, the echoing tournament majesty of Melee, or the razor-sharp HD crispness of Ultimate, that voice has dictated decades of couch-co-op triumphs and bitter defeats.

Enter the internet, a relentless meme factory, and Fish Audio.

In a phenomenon affectionately dubbed by creators as the “Super Smash Bros. Fish” trend, the gaming community has taken the platform’s hyper-realistic AI text-to-speech voice models of the Smash announcer and unleashed them onto the most mundane aspects of everyday life. The result is a viral cross-section of top-tier nostalgia, absurdity, and peak internet comedy.

What is the “Fish” in Smash Audio?

The term links two massive internet staples: Fish Audio, one of the creator economy’s go-to platforms for advanced AI voice generation and text-to-speech, and the community-trained voice models of the Super Smash Bros. announcers hosted on the site.

Because Fish Audio allows users to easily train, share, and utilize custom voice models, resourceful creators mapped the distinct cadence, theatrical pitch, and stadium-grade reverb of the Super Smash Bros. announcer. Suddenly, anyone could type out any sentence—no matter how silly—and have the legendary voice boom it out with absolute, life-or-death conviction.

The Evolution of the Announcer Models

The public library on Fish Audio features several iterations of the meme-favorite voice, catering to different generations of players: