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ElevenLabs: Generate sound effects from text prompts

Demo summary

The narrator uses the Sound Effects tool to generate a 'lion in the jungle' audio clip by entering a text description and adjusting the prompt influence slider.

Step-by-step

  1. Navigate to the Sound Effects tool
  2. Enter a text description of the desired sound into the prompt box
  3. Adjust the Prompt Influence slider to determine how closely the model follows the text
  4. Click the generate button to create the audio clips
  5. Preview the four generated options
  6. Download the preferred sound effect

Options

  • Increase Prompt Influence for stricter adherence to the text description
  • Decrease Prompt Influence for more creative model variation

Watch out for

  • If you choose a high prompt influence, the prompt must be extremely detailed

Tips

  • Use an AI like Claude to generate highly detailed prompts rather than writing simple ones yourself
  • Provide more detail in the prompt to achieve better quality results

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