Browsing and previewing sound effects in ElevenLabs

Ritesh Hegde - Your AI Partner·Feb 2026

Demo summary

The presenter explores the ElevenLabs sound effects library, demonstrating how to browse categories like animals and weapons, and previews the looping functionality of specific audio clips.

Step-by-step

Navigate to the Sound Effects tab and click Get Started
Select the Explore option to browse categories like animals, nature, or weapons
Click the play icon on a sound effect to preview the audio
Identify looping sounds by looking for the infinity symbol
Click the prompt icon to view or edit the text used to generate a specific sound
Use the download icon to save the file or the heart icon to add it to favorites

Options

Generate in high quality format
Modify existing prompts to generate new variations of a sound
Browse specific categories such as drones, foley, horror, or sci-fi

Watch out for

Sounds without the infinity symbol will not play on a seamless loop

Tips

Use the infinity symbol sounds for background ambience so the user cannot tell the audio is repeating

Highlights

“it'll keep playing the same thing without user guessing that it is in loop”

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