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AI Sound Effects Generator

Create custom sound effects from text descriptions with AI. Generate unique audio for games, videos, podcasts, and more.

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Describe Your Sound Effect

2 credits per generation
Be specific about environment, intensity, and characteristics

Generating 4 sound effect variations...

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How AI Sound Effects Generation Works

Create professional sound effects in three simple steps. No recording equipment or audio editing skills required.

Step 1

Describe the Sound

Type a natural language description of the sound effect you want. Be as specific as possible about the environment, intensity, and characteristics. Use quick prompts for common effects or write your own custom description for unique sounds.

Step 2

AI Generates Variations

Our AI model interprets your description and generates 4 unique variations of the sound effect. Choose your preferred duration from 1 to 30 seconds, enable seamless looping for ambient sounds, and select your output quality and format preferences.

Step 3

Download & Use

Preview each variation with the built-in player. Download your favorites in WAV or MP3 format. All generated sound effects are royalty-free and licensed for commercial use in games, videos, podcasts, music, and any other project.

Sound Effects Use Cases

AI-generated sound effects are transforming audio production across creative industries. Here are the most popular applications.

Game Development

Generate custom sound effects for game environments, weapons, UI feedback, character actions, and ambient atmospheres. Create hundreds of unique variations quickly without licensing fees. Perfect for indie developers and game jams where audio budgets are limited.

Video Production

Add foley and environmental sound effects to video projects. Create custom ambiences, transitions, impacts, and background textures. Generate exactly the sound you need instead of searching through generic libraries. Speed up post-production workflows dramatically.

Podcasts

Enhance podcast storytelling with custom sound effects and ambient backgrounds. Create immersive soundscapes for true crime, fiction, and documentary podcasts. Generate intro and outro stingers, transitions, and mood-setting backgrounds unique to your show.

Music Production

Create unique samples, textures, and atmospheric layers for music tracks. Generate custom percussion hits, ambient pads, risers, and impacts. Build original sample packs from text descriptions. Ideal for electronic, ambient, cinematic, and experimental music production.

UI/UX Design

Design custom notification sounds, button clicks, swipe feedback, and interaction audio for apps and websites. Create cohesive sound design systems that match your brand identity. Generate subtle, professional UI sounds that enhance user experience without being intrusive.

Film & Animation

Create custom foley, environmental ambiences, sci-fi effects, and cinematic impacts for film and animation projects. Generate unique creature sounds, futuristic technology audio, and atmospheric textures. Reduce reliance on stock libraries with AI-generated originals.

Powerful Sound Effects Features

Everything you need to create professional sound effects from text descriptions.

Text-to-Sound

Describe any sound in natural language and AI generates it. From simple effects like footsteps and door slams to complex soundscapes with multiple layered elements. No audio engineering expertise required.

Seamless Loops

Enable the loop toggle to generate sound effects with seamless loop points. Perfect for background ambiences, environmental textures, and game audio that needs to play continuously without audible transitions or clicks.

Multiple Variations

Every generation produces 4 unique variations of your described sound. Each variation interprets your prompt slightly differently, giving you creative options to choose from. Regenerate individual variations to explore more possibilities.

Royalty-Free

All generated sound effects are royalty-free and cleared for commercial use. Use them in games, videos, podcasts, music, apps, and any other project without attribution requirements or recurring licensing fees.

Frequently Asked Questions

Describe the sound you want in natural language — like "heavy rain on a tin roof with distant thunder" — and the AI generates a unique audio clip matching your description. It uses neural audio synthesis trained on millions of sounds.

Yes. All sound effects generated on TTS.ai are original creations that you own. Use them in games, videos, podcasts, music, apps, and commercial projects without royalties or attribution.

Yes. Enable the "Loop" toggle in settings to generate sound effects designed for seamless looping. Perfect for ambient backgrounds, game environments, and continuous audio textures.

Virtually anything: nature sounds (rain, wind, thunder, birds), urban sounds (traffic, sirens, crowds), mechanical sounds (engines, doors, machines), impacts (explosions, crashes), foley (footsteps, cloth), UI sounds (clicks, notifications), and more.

Generated clips range from 1 second to 30 seconds. For longer ambient tracks, generate a seamless loop and repeat it in your audio editor. The Loop option ensures clean repetition.

Yes. Each generation produces up to 4 variations of your prompt. This gives you options to choose from and ensures you find exactly the right sound for your project.

Sound effects are generated in WAV format (highest quality). You can also choose MP3 for smaller file sizes. Use our Audio Converter tool to convert to any other format.

Sound libraries contain pre-recorded sounds. Our generator creates unique sounds on demand from your description. You get exactly what you need without browsing thousands of clips. Every sound is original.

Prompts work best in English currently, as the model was primarily trained on English descriptions. However, the generated sounds are universal — a "thunderstorm" sounds the same regardless of the prompt language.

We use AudioGen (Meta) and Bark for sound effect generation. AudioGen specializes in environmental and foley sounds, while Bark handles a wider range including musical elements and vocal effects.

You can describe complex soundscapes in a single prompt (e.g., "busy coffee shop with espresso machine, chatter, and soft jazz"). For layering individual effects, download them separately and mix in an audio editor.

Sound effect generation costs 2 credits per generation (standard tier). Each generation produces up to 4 variations. Free accounts get 50 credits on signup, enough for 25 generations (100 sound effects).
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