Model · Music and sound

AudioGen (medium)

A downloadable model from Meta that makes short sound effects, like a dog barking or footsteps, from a text description. The weights are for non-commercial use only and need technical setup to run.

Go to AudioGen (medium)’s website

At a glance

Open or closed
Downloadable, with conditions
You can download and run it, but the licence limits use
Weights downloadable under CC-BY-NC-4.0; code in the AudioCraft GitHub repo (code licence not read).
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Licence
CC-BY-NC-4.0 (Non-commercial only)
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Can I sell what I make?
No
  • You must credit the maker
Weights are CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial, attribution). The page says nothing specific about outputs, so treat commercial use of results as not allowed.
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Cost
Free option: Free to download and run yourself for non-commercial use
Plans below.
How you use it
On your own computer, Through another service
Run via Meta's AudioCraft Python library. Platform inferred from Python/GPU tooling.
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Skill needed
Technical
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Made by
Meta (AI at Meta)
Listed owner on Hugging Face is 'AI at Meta'; no country stated on the page.
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Status
Available
Weights still published; based on a 2022 paper, no newer AudioGen version shown.
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What you can make with it

text to audio

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Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

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Rights and safety

Limits
note: Usage example makes 5-second clips; maximum length not stated.
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Related

Where you can run it

Hugging Face

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About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.