ElevenLabs Voice Isolator — model skill for sound effects
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Strip background noise and music from dialogue to get clean, isolated speech.
- Type: Model · Sound effects
- Slug:
elevenlabs-voice-isolator - Status: live
- Publisher: ElevenLabs (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/elevenlabs/skills/tree/main/voice-isolator
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- Requires: ElevenLabs API key (ELEVENLABS_API_KEY)
- Cost: Billed in ElevenLabs credits
- Adoption: 6,900 installs, 510 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Removes background noise and isolates speech with the ElevenLabs Voice Isolator API: cleaning noisy recordings, removing music or ambience from dialogue, isolating speech from field recordings and preparing audio for transcription. Input can be a file, a URL or low-latency PCM.
Use when
- Cleaning up a noisy interview or vlog
- Removing music under dialogue
- Preparing audio for transcription
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill voice-isolator -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill voice-isolator -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill voice-isolator -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill voice-isolator -a gemini-cli - OpenClaw:
npx skills add elevenlabs/skills --skill voice-isolator -a openclaw
Example output
https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/e95b08cb1189/elevenlabs-voice-isolator.mp3 — Isolated output of the Voice Isolator demo on ElevenLabs' docs (the same recording with background noise stripped); 3-13 s (credit: ElevenLabs, https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/voice-isolator)
How-to tutorials that use it
- How to translate and dub a video with AI: Your video in another language with your own voice, optionally lip-synced and subtitled.
- How to make an AI music video: A music video for your song: concept, a consistent lead character, shots cut on the beat, lip-sync on vocals.
- How to make a lyric video with AI: Lyrics synced to the song: the sung line big and highlighted, karaoke-style, over art or a shader.
- How to edit your own video footage with AI: Cut silences and flubs, reframe 16:9 to 9:16, add captions and b-roll to footage you shot.
More sound effects skills
- ElevenLabs Sound Effects: Generate sound effects and ambiences from a text description, including seamless loops.
- ElevenLabs Sound Effects (inference.sh): Generate royalty-free sound effects from text with ElevenLabs, via inference.sh.
- ElevenLabs Voice Isolator (inference.sh): Remove background noise and isolate vocals from any recording with ElevenLabs, via inference.sh.
- FLUX 3 Audio & Dialogue: Direct FLUX 3's generated sound: dialogue, voiceover, ambience, effects, music, silence and timing.
- Kling SFX via dLazy: 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