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 · Sound effects
- 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://skills.varg.ai/previews/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)
More sound effects skills
- ElevenLabs Voice Isolator: Strip background noise and music from dialogue to get clean, isolated speech.
- 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.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- 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 - 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