# ElevenLabs Sound Effects — model skill for sound effects

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Generate sound effects and ambiences from a text description, including seamless loops.

- **Type:** [Model](https://varg.ai/how-to/models.md) · [Sound effects](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/sfx.md)
- **Slug:** `elevenlabs-sound-effects`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** ElevenLabs (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/elevenlabs/skills/tree/main/sound-effects
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- **Requires:** ElevenLabs API key (ELEVENLABS_API_KEY)
- **Cost:** Billed in ElevenLabs credits
- **Adoption:** 11,600 installs, 510 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Generates sound effects from text with ElevenLabs (`eleven_text_to_sound_v2`): cinematic impacts, UI sounds, textures and ambiences. Parameters cover looping, duration and prompt influence, and the skill adds prompt tips and output formats.

## Use when

- Whooshes, impacts or UI sounds for an edit
- A looping ambience bed
- Any non-speech audio

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill sound-effects -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill sound-effects -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill sound-effects -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill sound-effects -a gemini-cli`
- OpenClaw: `npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill sound-effects -a openclaw`

**Models it drives:** eleven_text_to_sound_v2

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/8caef6128d55/elevenlabs-sound-effects.mp3 — 'Cinematic braam' — the generated sound-effect example on ElevenLabs' Sound Effects docs page; 0-8 s (hit and decay) (credit: ElevenLabs, https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/sound-effects)

## How-to tutorials that use it

- [How to make an AI short film](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-ai-short-film.md): A multi-shot story with consistent characters: script, storyboard, previz, shots, edit.
- [How to edit your own video footage with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/edit-your-own-video-footage.md): Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.

## More sound effects skills

- [ElevenLabs Voice Isolator](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/elevenlabs-voice-isolator.md): Strip background noise and music from dialogue to get clean, isolated speech.
- [ElevenLabs Sound Effects (inference.sh)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-sound-effects.md): Generate royalty-free sound effects from text with ElevenLabs, via inference.sh.
- [ElevenLabs Voice Isolator (inference.sh)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-voice-isolator.md): Remove background noise and isolate vocals from any recording with ElevenLabs, via inference.sh.
- [FLUX 3 Audio & Dialogue](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/flux-3-audio-dialogue.md): Direct FLUX 3's generated sound: dialogue, voiceover, ambience, effects, music, silence and timing.
- [Kling SFX via dLazy](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-keling-sfx.md): Generate sound effects from a text prompt or matched to a video with Kling SFX, through the dLazy CLI.

## Run the generation on varg

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt