ElevenLabs launches AI-powered tool for creating sound effects

ElevenLabs launched a new tool that lets users make sound effects and instrumental music by typing prompts in response to AI music generation market competition. They are also offering 10,000 free character generators every month, ensuring that users follow their Prohibited Content and Uses Policy.

ElevenLabs, a voice cloning company, released a new tool today that lets users make sound effects by following prompts. The business first talked about the project in February.

The tool is now available to everyone. To make sound clips, users can type in prompts like “waves crashing,” “metal clanging,” “birds chirping,” and “racing car engine.”

Along with sound effects, the tool can also make up to 22-second instrumental music clips with guitar loops, jazz saxophone solos, and music techno loops as examples.

People who use the site for free get 10,000 character generations every month. Each sound byte generation takes about 150 characters. In essence, people who use the free plan can make about 60 sound effects every month.

Also, when they publish anything with a sound clip, they have to give credit to “elevenlabs.io” in the title.

ElevenLabs Harnesses Shutterstock’s Audio Library for AI Sound Generation

ElevenLabs reportedly trained its model using licensed tracks from Shutterstock‘s audio library. The company also said that marketers, social media content creators, screenwriters, and people who make video games all used the tool during the alpha testing phase.

The new company said that the tool doesn’t let you make sounds through prompts that are against its Prohibited Content and Uses Policy.

The policy prohibits content such as self-harm, threats to child safety, and fraud. AI-powered sound generation is still relatively new, so ElevenLabs may find the music generation space to be quite crowded.

Harmonai, Google, OpenAI, Jukebox, and Meta all contributed to the stability of AI Dance Diffusion. TikTok and Adobe have also tried out their own generative AI-based music-making tools.