Sound effect generator
Describe a sound and hear it a few seconds later: a door, a laser, a coin, footsteps, rain. Play it here, download it, use it in your game or video.
What you get
A sound effect from your words, 0.5 to 30 seconds long, or a loop with no seam. ElevenLabs returns an MP3 at 44.1 kHz; Stable Audio 3 a stereo WAV. Need lots of everyday sounds rather than one special one? Search the free CC0 sound effects first. Agents and code can make sounds through the sound effect API and the MCP server.
Models
Stable Audio 3soon
Stability AI's open sound effect model: a 44.1 kHz stereo WAV from a description, 0.5 to 22 seconds.
a few seconds
Powered by Stability AI.
ElevenLabs Sound Effectscredits
A sound effect from a description, 0.5 to 30 seconds, or one that loops without a seam.
a few seconds
Questions
- Can I use the sounds commercially?
- Yes. A sound you make here is yours to use in a game, a video or an app you sell. ElevenLabs' sound effects are cleared for commercial use; Stable Audio's outputs belong to whoever made them.
- How long can a sound be?
- From half a second to 30 seconds with ElevenLabs, or 22 with Stable Audio 3. With ElevenLabs you can leave the length to the model, which picks one that suits the sound: the run is held at 30 seconds and charged for the length that comes back.
- Can it make a loop?
- Yes, with ElevenLabs: tick Loop and the end leads back into the start without a seam, for rain, engines, machines and room tone.
- What makes a good description?
- What makes the sound and how: "heavy wooden door creaking open, then slamming shut", "small metal coin dropping on stone", "distant thunder rolling". Say the material, the size and the space it is in.
- Is there a sound effect library too?
- Yes: hundreds of CC0 sound effects, footsteps, impacts, lasers, doors and interface clicks, to play and download for free. Search it before you generate.