# venice-audio-music

A skill for async music, sound-effect and long voice generation through the Venice API. Useful when a synchronous call would time out.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 160
- Author: veniceai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/veniceai-venice-audio-music

## What it does

The skill walks through four Venice audio endpoints. `POST /api/v1/audio/quote` returns a price in USD, `POST /api/v1/audio/queue` charges the account and returns a `queue_id`, `POST /api/v1/audio/retrieve` answers with a status object or the audio bytes, and `POST /api/v1/audio/complete` removes the stored file. Pricing works without a key; sending one lets you see models tied to your account.

Queue requests take lyrics in `lyrics_prompt`, an instrumental switch in `force_instrumental`, and automatic lyric writing in `lyrics_optimizer`. Only `elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2` supports `loop`, which splices the end of the clip into its start. Voice models pick a name from `voices`, and the ElevenLabs ones also take a raw Voice ID. The request body is strict: any field the model's `model_spec` does not list comes back as `400`.

A Venice key is required for queue, retrieve and complete, passed as `Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY`. Voice-changer models are refused on these four endpoints with a `400` that points at `/audio/voice-changer/*`. When a run fails on content policy or provider capacity, the charge is refunded.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-audio-music -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/venice-audio-music/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-audio-music -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-audio-music -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install veniceai/skills venice-audio-music
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-audio-music -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/veniceai/skills --path skills/venice-audio-music
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-audio-music -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-audio-music/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- generate a song from lyrics and an arrangement brief
- price a track before sending it to the queue
- render a looping sound effect that joins cleanly at the ends
- produce long narration that outlasts a synchronous call
- download the finished audio and delete it from the server

## Example prompts
- Quote a 60-second track on `elevenlabs-music`
- Queue a song using the lyrics in `lyrics.txt` on `minimax-music-v25`
- Check the `queue_id` status and download the finished file

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: venice-audio-music
description: Async music, sound-effect and long-form voice generation via Venice. Covers the /audio/quote + /audio/queue + /audio/retrieve + /audio/complete lifecycle, lyrics vs instrumental and the lyrics optimizer, duration options, seamless loop (ElevenLabs sound effects), voice selection incl. custom ElevenLabs Voice IDs, language, speed, model capability probing via /models?type=music, pricing shapes, refunds, and polling.
---

# Venice Music / Async Audio

Music, sound effects and character-priced voice generation are **asynchronous**:

| Method | Path | Auth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `POST` | `/api/v1/audio/quote` | **None required** (key optional) | Price in USD. |
| `POST` | `/api/v1/audio/queue` | Bearer key or x402 (SIWX) | Charges and enqueues → `queue_id`. 40 req/min per user. |
| `POST` | `/api/v1/audio/retrieve` | Bearer key or x402 (SIWX) | Status JSON or the audio bytes. 120 req/min per user. |
| `POST` | `/api/v1/audio/complete` | Bearer key or x402 (SIWX) | Delete the stored media. |

For short synchronous text-to-speech use [`venice-audio-speech`](../venice-audio-speech/SKILL.md). Voice-changer (speech-to-speech) models are **refused** on these four endpoints with a `400` pointing at `/audio/voice-changer/*` (callers who can't see the model get `404` instead) — see [`venice-audio-voice-changer`](../venice-audio-voice-changer/SKILL.md).

## Use when

- You need songs, jingles, score, soundscapes, sound effects, or long narration.
- The model uses duration-, per-second-, per-job- or character-based pricing and you want a price before submitting.
- Generation takes long enough that a synchronous call would time out.

## Models

Query `GET /models?type=music` for the current list and each model's `model_spec`. Representative ids (all in the live list):

| Kind | Examples |
|---|---|
| Instrumental / songs | `elevenlabs-music`, `elevenlabs-music-v2-5`, `lyria-3-pro`, `sonilo-v1-1-music`, `stable-audio-25` |
| Songs with lyrics | `minimax-music-v25`, `minimax-music-v26`, `minimax-music-v2` (lyrics required), `ace-step-15` (lyrics optional) |
| Sound effects | `elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2` (supports `loop`), `sonilo-v1-1-sound-effects`, `mmaudio-v2-text-to-audio` |
| Voice (text in `prompt`) | `elevenlabs-tts-v4`, `elevenlabs-tts-v4-turbo`, `elevenlabs-tts-v3`, `elevenlabs-tts-multilingual-v2`, `seed-audio-1-0` |

## Lifecycle

### 1. `POST /audio/quote` — price it first

```bash
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/quote \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "model": "elevenlabs-music", "duration_seconds": 60 }'
```
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