Verdict

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Best if
You are audio producers and need: Create suspense radio dramas with dialogue, music, ambience, and sound effects
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You need enterprise SLAs or a fully managed team plan right away
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Freemium · Free + from $19.99 per month

Overview

Seed Audio 1.0 is ByteDance Seed's multimodal AI audio generation model for creating complete sound scenes from text, images, or audio references. It can generate multi-speaker dialogue, emotional delivery, native accents, ambience, background music, and foley-style sound effects in a single prompt. The platform is designed for longer audio scenes and supports layer-aware output for creative projects such as films, advertisements, podcasts, games, education, and XR prototypes.

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Best for

Short scenarios where Seed Audio 1.0 tends to shine.

  • Create suspense radio dramas with dialogue, music, ambience, and sound effects

    Best for Audio producers

  • Prototype sound design for short films and storyboards

    Best for Sound designers

  • Produce audio for advertisements, product demos, and social media campaigns

    Best for Filmmakers

  • Create character dialogue, ambient loops, UI sounds, and cinematic moments for games and XR

    Best for Video creators

  • Build scenario-based lessons and immersive educational explainers

    Best for Podcast producers

  • Generate podcast scenes and multi-character audio content

    Best for Game developers

Example outputs 1

Sample generations and before/after results for Seed Audio 1.0.

Access & connections

Where you can use Seed Audio 1.0.

API

Public API available

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Capabilities

What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.

Highlights

  • Multimodal audio generation from text, images, and audio references
  • Multi-speaker dialogue with emotional tone and accent control
  • Simultaneous generation of ambience, background music, and foley-style sound effects
  • Layer-aware sound-scene composition
  • Voice continuity for longer generated scenes
  • Customizable output settings including format, sample rate, speed, volume, and pitch
  • Seed Audio 1.0 API access with shared web and API credits

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FAQ 10

What is Seed Audio 1.0?
Seed Audio 1.0 is ByteDance Seed's multimodal AI audio generation model for creating complete sound scenes from text, images, or audio references. It can generate multi-speaker dialogue, emotional delivery, native accents, ambience, background music, and foley-style sound effects in a single prompt. The platform is designed for longer audio scenes and supports layer-aware output for creative projects such as films, advertisements, podcasts, games, education, and XR prototypes.
How to use Seed Audio 1.0?
Write a sound-scene prompt describing the characters, language, emotion, location, dialogue, ambience, music, sound effects, and timing. Optionally add up to three audio references or one image reference, choose voice and output settings, set a credit limit, and generate the audio. Review the result, then download, copy, or revise it.
What is Seed Audio 1.0?
Seed Audio 1.0 is ByteDance Seed's AI audio model for generating complete sound scenes, including dialogue, emotion, ambience, music, and foley-style effects.
What inputs does Seed Audio 1.0 support?
It supports text prompts, up to three audio references, and one image reference for guiding the sound scene.
What can I generate with Seed Audio 1.0?
You can generate multi-speaker dialogue, emotional speech, accents, environmental ambience, background music, footsteps, impacts, doors, and other foley-style effects.
How long can each generation be?
Each generation can be up to 2 minutes long. The Free plan provides approximately 8 seconds per generation.
Does Seed Audio 1.0 provide API access?
Yes. Paid plans and credit packs include Seed Audio 1.0 API access, using the same shared credit balance as the web app.
How many free credits are available?
The Free plan includes 10 signup credits.
Can I control the audio output?
Yes. You can customize voice behavior, output format, sample rate, speed, volume, pitch, and the maximum credit cap.
Why use an image reference?
An image reference can guide the mood, environment, and visual context of the generated sound scene.
Seed Audio 1.0 Free + from $19.99 per month