Sound effects

A guide on how to create high-quality sound effects from text with ElevenLabs.

Sound effects product feature

Overview

Sound effects enhance the realism and immersion of your audio projects. ElevenLabs offers a variety of sound effects that can be easily integrated into your voiceovers and projects.

Guide

Sound effects demo

1

Navigate to Sound Effects

Head over to the Sound Effects tab in the dashboard.

2

Describe the sound effect

In the text box, type a description of the sound effect you want (e.g., “person walking on grass”).

3

Adjust settings

Sound effects settings

  1. Set the duration for the generated sound (or let it automatically pick the best length).
  2. Use the prompt influence slider to control how closely the output should matchthe prompt.
4

Generate Sound

Click the “Generate” button to start generating.
5

Review and regenerate

You should have four different sounds generated. If you like none of them, adjust the prompt or settings as needed and regenerate.

Exercise: Create a Sound Effect using the following prompt: old-school funky brass stabs from an old vinyl sample, stem, 88bpm in F# minor.

Explore the library

Sound effects explore

Check out some of our community-made sound effects in the Explore tab.

For more information on prompting & how sound effects work visit our overview page.

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