# Generative Text to Audio – Sound Effects Using Audiogen

In this video we'll use the audiogen functionality of Audiocraft to generate sound effects based on descriptions of sounds we want to hear, provided via the command line.

Starting code: https://github.com/heaversm/audiocraft-tutorials/tree/tutorials/01-audiogen-cmdline Ending code: https://github.com/heaversm/audiocraft-tutorials/tree/tutorials/02-audiogen-params

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0:00 - Introduction and Goals 0:13 - Stable Audio demo 0:33 - Audiocraft Github Repo 0:50 - Recap of last tutorial 1:30 - Intro to Audiogen 1:50 - Basic audio generation via command line 3:09 - Listening to our generated audio 3:50 - Set up script to accept command line parameters 6:24 - Testing generation via description parameters

6:55 - Next episode: Setting up a website form for audio generation

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2023
- Runtime: 7 min
- By: Practical AI through Prototypes
- Genres: Music
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generative_Text_to_Audio_%E2%80%93_Sound_Effects_Using_Audiogen.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Practical AI through Prototypes
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/152523768?play=1)