ElevenLabs Sound Effects

• 🔊 Generates sound effects from natural-language text descriptions.
• 📏 Produces up to 30 seconds of audio per generation.
• 🔁 Adds seamless looping, exclusive to the v2 model.
• 🎯 Controllable prompt influence and configurable output formats.
• 🎬 Aimed at films, games, podcasts, and digital media.
• 🔒 API output is commercially licensed and royalty-free.
• 🏢 Built by ElevenLabs on its audio AI stack.

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is a software company specializing in natural-sounding speech synthesis and audio generation powered by deep learning. The company has established itself as a leading force in AI-driven voice technology, building tools that span text-to-speech,…

ElevenLabs Sound Effects is a text-to-audio model that turns written descriptions into sound effects, with the documented model identifier eleven_text_to_sound_v2. It understands both natural-language descriptions and audio terminology, letting creators generate impacts, environmental ambiences, mechanical and organic textures, and UI cues for films, games, podcasts, and interactive media. Each request can produce up to 30 seconds of audio, delivered in multiple MP3 formats suited to web, mobile, or studio work.

Compared with the prior version, the v2 generation adds a seamless looping option that the ElevenLabs API documentation notes is available only on the eleven_text_to_sound_v2 model, making it well suited to ambient backgrounds and game audio. The model also exposes a prompt-influence control so users can dictate how strictly output follows the text, and it can generate looping atmospheres such as extended rain beds for audiobooks and film.

Within ElevenLabs' catalog, Sound Effects sits alongside ElevenLabs Music for music generation, the speech-synthesis ElevenLabs TTS v3 and Multilingual v2 models, the low-latency Turbo v2.5, and the [[sibling:elevenlabs/scribe-v2|Scribe V2]] transcription model.

Output generated through the API is commercially licensed and royalty-free, with the company's standard terms applying. This makes the model practical for video post-production, game prototyping, and ambient sound design without separate sourcing or licensing of stock audio.