Discord soundboard: add your own sounds and voice clips
The Discord soundboard plays short clips to everyone in a voice channel: an airhorn, a quack, an inside joke. The best soundboards are full of the server’s own sounds, and voice lines in a character’s voice are a favourite.
This guide follows Discord’s help page: how to add sounds, how many fit on a server, who may upload them, and how to make your own voice clips without recording anything.
Add a sound
Join a voice channel, open the soundboard with the confetti icon or the soundboard icon at the bottom left, and press Add Sound. Uploading works only in the desktop app or a browser, not on mobile. Discord reminds you that you are responsible for not breaking its rules or anyone’s intellectual property with what you upload.
Slots and boosts
Every server starts with 8 sound slots. Server Boosting unlocks more: 24 at Tier 1, 36 at Tier 2 and 48 at Tier 3. Keep the clips short and punchy, because a soundboard sound is a reaction, not a speech; the upload window shows the current length and size limits.
Permissions and Nitro
To add sounds a role needs Create Expressions; to edit or remove them, Manage Expressions; and the Use Soundboard permission decides who may play them, per role or per voice channel. Entrance sounds that play when you join, and using one server’s sounds in another, require Nitro. On Windows, CTRL + ` opens the soundboard in the game overlay.
Make your own voice clips
For a clip in a character’s voice, open a voice in the SuperClonica catalog, type a short line of 30 to 100 characters, listen free and download it, with no account. Keep one reaction per clip, such as a catchphrase, a greeting or a “nope”. For a whole pack, install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu and voice many lines at once; the ten stock voices are free under OpenRAIL-M, and character voices cost $2.99 once and are meant for parody and fan fun, not for making anyone think a real person said something.