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🗣️ Crowd sound effect 🧑‍🍳 A worker 🗣️ To make crowd noise
to walla

to walla

9.9
To make quiet background sounds of people talking
  • verb
  • /ˈwɑːlə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : hacer ruido de fondo
  • The sound engineer instructed the actors to walla quietly during the scene to simulate the atmosphere of a busy café.

Examples

  • As the camera rolled, the background actors began to walla softly to enhance the realism of the bustling marketplace.

  • In the recording studio, the team practiced how to walla appropriately for the documentary to create a lively setting.

  • I love me, so let's walla walla

    Meatballs (1979)

  • So let's walla walla

    Meatballs (1979)

  • Let's walla walla

    Meatballs (1979)

Synonyms

to add foley
vsto walla
  • Specialized
7.7

Include recorded sounds in a film or TV show to make the scene seem real

focuses on indistinct background murmuring to simulate crowds rather than varied sound effects

How Distinct

to chat
  • Informal
269 1.0
to walla
  • Specialized
9.9
to murmur
11 4.2
to hum
49 1.0

Surface Forms

walla infinitive
walled past
walled past participle
walling present participle
wallas third person singular

Etymology

Walla as a verb comes from the same film idea: extras would 'walla' — quietly murmur 'walla walla' — to make a scene sound busy, so to walla is 'to make background crowd talk'.