How Star Wars created the legendary lightsaber sound effect

What would "Star Wars" and the galaxy far, far away be without lightsabers? And what would lightsabers be without that ...
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SNL's "The Sound" Sketch Uses The Voice's Chair Turns to Hilarious Effect

Please Don't Destroy used The Voice's dramatic chair turns to hilarious effect on Saturday Night Live's March 1 episode. "The Sound" is *not* The Voice, as Coach Cody Swiggums (Ben Marshall) makes ...
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ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects

After launching tools for text-to-speech and speech-to-speech synthesis, AI voice startup ElevenLabs is moving to the next target. The two-year-old startup founded by former Google and Palantir ...
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The Wilhelm Scream: The History of Film’s Most Popular Sound Effect

If you’ve watched any franchise cinema from the past 70 years, chances are you’ve heard the Wilhelm Scream. Recorded for the Warner Bros. sound archives in the early 1950s, the exaggerated yowl can be ...