This is a catalog with descriptive names and additional information about the sounds in Final Fantasy VIII.
The bulk of the sound effects is in the file audio.dat. The ID numbers go from 1 to 2789 (field ID from 7851 to 10639), with a lot of IDs empty / available for modding, for a total of 1'543 existing sound effects. To obtain the field ID number you can add 7850 to the other ID.
More than 100 of the existing sound effects are unused in the game (leftovers of the game development).
For modding you can use FF8Audio by Shard (it uses the field ID), or the newer FF8SND by Julian Xhokaxhiu.
All text files are LF.
In catalog.txt there's the list of sound files in this format:
ID category → sub category → descriptive name
In sound-information.md you can find additional information about the sound effects; for example, by which monsters a shared attack sfx is used.
For the ambience sounds in music/stream, see stream-sounds-catalog.md.
MikeDoesAudio and @barjack_26 from the modding community, for the technical discussions.
FFNx for its tracing capabilities.
Spoken digits from which I've built my probing sounds: Free Spoken Digit Dataset (FSDD) by Zohar Jackson.
FFVIII devs for having left the very useful debug room in the game... ;)