Add Sound Effects to Your Speech

Drop doorbells, applause, notifications — thousands of real sound effects — straight into your text. One click, no audio editor.

01

Type your text

Start with your text — here, a short story. Put the cursor where a sound should play.

02

Open the sound library

Click the sound icon in the toolbar to open Sound Selection.

Categories sit on the left; search and sound cards on the right.

03

Find your sound

Search by name — type “doorbell” — or browse the categories on the left.

04

Preview before you commit

Hit play to hear a sound before inserting — no guesswork. This is the doorbell you just found:

Unusual doorbellID 47542 · 0:01

05

Insert it

Click Insert — the <sound> tag drops into your text at the cursor. That inserts the whole sound, ready to go.

What gets inserted — the sound tag

The basic tag is just the sound. Fine-tune it (next section) and the tag grows to carry the volume and trim points:

• id="47542" — the sound itself. The number of the effect in the library. This is the only required part.
• name="…" — a human-readable label. Optional, just for your reference — you can delete it.
• start="180" — where the clip starts, in milliseconds. Comes from the left crop handle.
• end="765" — where the clip ends, in milliseconds. Comes from the right crop handle.

Fine-tune the sound (optional)

Two controls make the effect fit your narration exactly — each adds a part to the tag.

Trim it — use exactly the part you need

Drag the handles on the waveform to trim the start or the end — cut silence, shorten a long clip. This writes start and end into the tag.

Balance the volume

Set the volume so the effect sits under the voice — a subtle background or a bold accent. This writes volume into the tag.

Power features

Copy the ID — automate through the API

Every sound has a numeric ID. Copy it to reuse the sound programmatically — generate hundreds of files at scale.

For developers — use the ID via the API

POST https://speechgen.io/index.php?r=api/text

{
  "token": "…", "email": "…",
  "voice": "Amber",
  "text": "Your package has arrived. <sound id=\"47542\"/>"
}

Save favorites

Star the sounds you use often — they live under the Favorites tab for instant reuse.

A library of thousands of sounds

Every effect is built in — no stock sites, no licenses, no downloads. Browse ~30 categories, each with a tree of sounds.

By type: one-shot hits (doorbell, click, coin) · chimes & notifications · ambient loops (rain, crowd, office) · impacts & whooshes · voice & animal sounds — from a subtle UI tick to a cinematic boom.

Build it and hear the result

Repeat for each moment — the story now carries three sound tags.

Where to use it

Now that you know how — the scenarios where sound effects turn narration into a finished product. Each card has a real rendered example with two sounds — press play.