AI sound effect generator: turn text into sound effects

Yes, for short sounds: Audo makes sound effects up to 10 seconds long free, 3 times a day, with no sign-up. Longer ones, up to 30 seconds, cost $0.005 a second, so $0.15 for the longest, shown before you generate and charged only if it works. There's no subscription or monthly plan.

Audo runs ElevenLabs' SFX v3, the newest ElevenLabs sound effects model, released in November 2026: the same model ElevenLabs' own Sound Effects offers. It follows descriptions with several parts more closely than earlier versions, sounds more natural, and handles musical and vocal sounds, such as a crowd chanting or a drum hit, better. On Audo you pay per sound, with no subscription.

Yes. Audo's terms say your files and results stay yours, so a sound you make on Audo is yours to use in videos, podcasts, ads, and games, with no attribution. Don't describe sounds you don't have the rights to, such as a brand's trademarked jingle.

Say what happens, where, and how it feels, rather than naming a category: "footsteps on gravel, approaching slowly, then stopping" works better than "footsteps". Name the material and the space ("a heavy metal door in an empty warehouse"), and put a sequence in order ("a door creaks open, then slams"). Exact counts, such as "four knocks", aren't always followed, so generate a few takes and keep the best.

Each sound is half a second to 30 seconds long, in half-second steps. It's usually ready in a few seconds: in Audo's tests in November 2026, sounds of 1 to 12 seconds came back in 2 to 4 seconds.

Yes. Turn on Loop and the sound has no audible start or end, so rain, wind, room tone, or a crowd can play on repeat under a video, a podcast, or a game scene.

MP3 (44.1 kHz, 192 kbps) is small and plays anywhere. WAV is uncompressed 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo, which video editors such as Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve and game engines such as Unity take without converting.

Describe them, such as "a retro 8-bit coin pickup blip", and it makes them like any other sound. It's an AI model that makes a sound from words, not a chiptune synthesizer with sliders: for an exact 8-bit sound you tweak by hand, a synthesizer such as sfxr or Bfxr fits better.

Yes, with Audo added to it. Ask it for "a 3-second whoosh for a video transition", and it makes the sound with Audo's generator and hands you the MP3 to download. Claude works the same way. Add Audo to your assistant once, and it's there in every chat.

Use Text to speech to read a script aloud in the voice you choose. To put a sound effect under a recording, mix the two in Mix audio.