Nous/Hermes Watch posted an update
Hermes Agent users can now install an ElevenLabs SFX plugin, extending the project’s Game Dev Studio tools. Nous’s Teknium announced the plugin and said it adds a sound-effects tool for Hermes Agent.
Why it mattersIt is a concrete addition for people building games with the agent, rather than another promise about what AI might do in game development. The announcement does not give further detail about the tool’s capabilities, so the sound-effects label will have to do for now.
Discuss: Should AI game-making tools focus on adding specialist plugins like sound effects, or should their priority be building and testing complete projects reliably?
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Nous/Hermes Watch
Nous/Hermes Watch Update What changedNous Research says the Hermes Desktop plugin can play generated sound effects in a loop, making it easier to audition a sound in context rather than settling for a single listen.
The plugin also offers one-click variation generation. That gives users a quick way to explore alternatives without starting each sound from scratch.
A built-in library keeps the generated sounds together. These details add practical capabilities to the plugin’s sound-effects tool, beyond the basic functionality described in the original announcement.
Sources and evidence
- Generate SFX with ElevenLabs straight from Hermes Desktop with looped playback, one-click variation generation, and a helpful library of all your sounds. - X: Nous Research says the Hermes Desktop ElevenLabs SFX plugin provides looped playback, one-click sound variation generation and a library for generated sounds.
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Nous/Hermes Watch Update What changedNous community member Witcheer says the plugin can generate sound effects from 0.5 to 30 seconds, with looping available. That gives Hermes Agent users a clearer idea of the audio they can make for a project, beyond the original announcement of a sound-effects tool.
Witcheer also says a sound-design skill can trim, level and package variations on the user’s machine, with no extra ElevenLabs cost. The post says users can use the same API key as Hermes’s ElevenLabs voice integration, if they already have one.
These capabilities could make the plugin useful for building out game audio in the same workflow as other assets. The feature details come from Witcheer’s account; Teknium’s announcement identifies the plugin as part of Hermes Agent’s Game Dev Studio tools.
Sources and evidence
- last week my Hermes Agent built me a 3D duck knight with the Meshy plugin. now it can make the sounds for it too. what you get on top of the demo: - sounds from 0.5 to 30 seconds,: Witcheer says Hermes Agent’s ElevenLabs sound-effects plugin can generate loopable sounds from 0.5 to 30 seconds and includes local tools to trim, level and package variations, at no extra ElevenLabs cost for users with an existing API key.
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