ElevenLabs: Generating custom sound effects with prompts

Ritesh Hegde - Your AI Partner·Feb 2026

Demo summary

The user demonstrates how to configure settings like loop, duration, and prompt influence before generating a custom acoustic guitar sound effect using a text prompt.

Step-by-step

Enter a description of the sound effect in the prompt box
Toggle the infinite loop setting on or off
Set the duration manually between 0.6 and 30 seconds or select Auto
Adjust the prompt influence slider to balance creativity versus prompt adherence
Click Enter to generate the sound effects
Preview the four generated variations
Download the preferred version or add it to favorites

Options

Use Gemini to generate descriptive prompts for the music
Access previously generated sounds in the History tab

Watch out for

The character/credit usage increases proportionally with the duration of the sound effect

Tips

Keep prompt influence around 30% to 50% to get a mix of your prompt and AI creativity
Use infinite loop for effects designed to be played on repeat as the ending blends seamlessly into the beginning
If you set prompt influence to high, the AI adds no creative angle; if set to low, the prompt might be ignored

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