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Eleven Text to Sound v2

Eleven Text To Sound V2 Sound Effects is available in the Business API catalog.

elevenlabs/eleven-text-to-sound-v2/sound-effects

Capabilities

Best for

  • •Voiceover and narration
  • •Sound design beds
  • •Quick music sketches

Not for

  • •Real-time streaming synthesis
  • •Studio mastering
  • •Forensic audio

Authentication

api key header

The Pika API uses API keys to authenticate requests. Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Your API key is a secret. Don't expose it in browsers or other client-side code. Instead, call the API from your server. The signed-in playground uses a portal session and never sends your API key.

header
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

Endpoint

asynchronous · poll for the result

POSThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/elevenlabs/eleven-text-to-sound-v2/sound-effectsgenerate endpoint
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}poll until completed
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/contentget the result URL

REST Setup

plain HTTPS

Audio generation runs through the REST endpoint shown above. The API is plain JSON over HTTPS, so any HTTP client works. No provider-specific SDK is required.

Generate

POST /v1/media/elevenlabs/eleven-text-to-sound-v2/sound-effects

Request

curl -X POST https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/elevenlabs/eleven-text-to-sound-v2/sound-effects \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "text": "Single pair of leather boots walking on wet gravel, steady pace, close-mic'd, realistic.",
  "duration_seconds": 5,
  "prompt_influence": 0.3
}'

Response

{
  "id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
  "status": "queued"
}

Request body

textstringrequired
Text describing the sound effect to generate.
duration_secondsnumber0.5 – 30required
Length of the sound effect in seconds.
prompt_influencenumber0 – 1
How closely the output follows the prompt, from 0 to 1.
loopboolean
Whether to generate a seamlessly looping sound effect.

Returns

Returns a job object with status , not the final output. Store the id from the response and poll the job until it completes.

Poll status

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}

Request

curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id} \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
  "status": "running"
}

Poll the job by id until it reaches a terminal state: completed or failed.

The job object

idstring
Unique identifier for the job.
statusenum
The status of the job.One of:
object
The generation output. Present once the job completes.
errorstring
If the job failed, the reason for the failure.

Get result

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content

Request

curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "url": "https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/files/audio_8f3a2c91.mp3"
}

Once the job completes, fetch a download URL for the generated media.

Returns

urlstring
Download URL for the generated file.

Errors

shared across calls

Errors use conventional HTTP status codes with a JSON body of the shape {"message": "..."}. Validation failures return 422 with a message naming the offending field. Submit rejections after the job row exists (balance, rate limit) return the failed job envelope — branch on error.code.

StatusWhenBody
401 UnauthorizedThe API key is missing or invalid.{"message":"Invalid API key"}
403 ForbiddenAn inactive key is rejected with a `{"message"}` body. A submit that the org balance or postpaid cycle limit cannot cover is rejected after the job row exists and returns the failed job envelope.{"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"insufficient_balance","message":"Insufficient org balance"}}
404 Not FoundNo job with that id exists in your org, or the media path names an unknown vendor/model/function.{"message":"media job not found"}
409 ConflictThe result was requested before the job completed, or an Idempotency-Key header was reused with a different body.{"message":"media job is not ready"}
422 Unprocessable EntityThe request body failed validation: an invalid enum value, a missing required field, a wrong type, or malformed JSON. The JSON message names the offending field. A schema-valid parameter combination that cannot be priced instead fails after job creation and returns the failed job envelope with error code `invalid_input`.{"message":"duration: Input should be less than or equal to 15"}
429 Too Many RequestsOrg limit reached: requests per minute or day, or concurrent jobs. Returned as the failed job envelope; check the Retry-After header and retry with a fresh Idempotency-Key.{"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"rate_limited","message":"rate limit exceeded: rpm"}}
503 Service UnavailableThe model rail or a backend dependency is temporarily unavailable. Returned as the failed job envelope; retry with backoff and a fresh Idempotency-Key.{"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"provider_unavailable","message":"media dispatch unavailable"}}

Pricing

only successful runs are charged

TierPrice
default$0.13 / minute

Per-model pricing

Transparent, usage-based rates for every ElevenLabs model.

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$0.105 / 1000 chars

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$0.126 / min

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$0.004 / min

Eleven Text to Dialogue

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$0.105 / 1000 chars

Eleven Text to Sound v2Current

Audio • Sound Effects

$0.126 / min

Eleven Turbo v2.5

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$0.053 / 1000 chars

Eleven Voice Dubbing

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Dubbing

with watermark$0.347 / min
no watermark$0.525 / min

Eleven Voice Isolation

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$0.126 / min

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