ElevenLabs Sound Effects
ElevenLabs' AI-generated sound effects model — turns text prompts into high-quality, precisely timed audio effects for film, games, and content.
Overview
What is ElevenLabs Sound Effects
ElevenLabs Sound Effects is a text-to-audio model released on May 31, 2024, that generates high-quality sound effects from natural language descriptions. It offers precise control over duration, looping, and prompt influence, enabling creators to produce cinematic SFX, ambient textures, and custom audio for games and video content.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, ElevenLabs Sound Effects runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. This means you can generate sound effects privately, with zero retention of your creative inputs, ensuring full audio sovereignty for sensitive or commercial projects.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- High-quality, naturalistic sound generation with strong attention to texture and realism.
- Precise control over duration (0.1–30 seconds) and looping for ambient or atmospheric effects.
- Seamless integration for creators in film, gaming, and video production workflows.
- Supports nuanced prompts combining natural language and audio terminology.
- Maximum single-clip length is 30 seconds without looping.
- No open weights: cannot be self-hosted or modified.
- Limited fine-grained editing controls in the native interface; regeneration often required for refinement.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
“An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings, warm brass, and a hopeful resolution.”
“A mellow lo-fi hip-hop beat with a soft jazzy piano loop, vinyl crackle, and a relaxed late-night mood.”
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- ElevenLabs
- Released
- May 31, 2024
- Modality
- Text-to-sound effects
- Max duration
- 30 seconds (extendable via looping)
- Prompt length
- Up to 450 characters
- Output quality
- Up to 192kbps, 44.1kHz
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Feb 2026
- License
- Proprietary
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2",
"prompt": "An uplifting cinematic orchestral build with soaring strings"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/retrieve.
# Call /audio/complete after downloading if needed.Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Billed per second of audio on Venice: $0 per second.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max duration | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs Sound Effects | 30s (loopable) | Cinematic & natural SFX | No | $0 / sec |
| ElevenLabs Music | — | Short instrumental tracks | No | from $0.69 / track |
| MiniMax Music 2.5 | — | Game audio & loops | No | $0.18 / track |
| Lyria 3 Pro | — | High-fidelity music | No | $0.10 / track |
High-fidelity, naturalistic sound effects with precise prompt control.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Generating cinematic sound design for trailers and films.
- 02Creating custom sound effects for video games and interactive media.
- 03Producing ambient and Foley sounds for audiobooks, podcasts, and video content.
- 04Rapid prototyping of audio assets without access to a recording studio.
Prompting
Getting better results
Use descriptive, sensory language: 'distant thunder rolling over dry grass' yields better results than 'thunder'.
Specify timing and intensity: 'sudden glass shatter followed by echo' improves accuracy.
Use the 'looping' option for ambient backgrounds like rain or wind to extend beyond 30 seconds.
Adjust 'prompt influence' to balance literal vs. creative interpretations.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
ElevenLabs Sound Effects is an AI model that generates high-quality audio effects from text descriptions. Released on May 31, 2024, it enables creators to produce cinematic SFX, ambient sounds, and custom audio for games, films, and video content with precise control over timing and style.
On Venice, ElevenLabs Sound Effects is billed at $0 per second of audio generated, making it free to use with no hidden charges. This reflects Venice's zero-retention, anonymized access model.
It is not open source — the model is proprietary and closed-weights. However, on Venice, it is currently available at no cost per generation, with prompts not stored or used for training.
Yes. You can generate sound effects up to 30 seconds long and enable seamless looping for atmospheric textures like rain, wind, or background ambience, making them ideal for extended use in games or audiobooks.
Prompts can be up to 450 characters long. This allows for detailed, descriptive inputs that combine natural language with audio-specific terminology for better results.
ElevenLabs excels in naturalistic, cinematic SFX with strong prompt fidelity, while Stable Audio offers longer clips (up to 47 seconds) and open-weights access. For hosted, polished SFX in production, ElevenLabs wins; for unlimited local generations, Stable Audio Open is preferable.
Yes. The model is designed for use in film, gaming, and commercial content creation. On Venice, your prompts remain private and are not stored, supporting commercial sovereignty.
Yes. It offers an API for developers and integrates into workflows via ElevenLabs' platform, allowing for automated sound effect generation in video editing, game development, and content pipelines.
Run ElevenLabs Sound Effects privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.