Noisy Typer – a typewriter for your laptop.

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Noisy Typer is a free piece of software which plays typewriter sounds as you type. It runs in the background and works with all applications ( email, web, word etc ). Key sounds include: letter keys, spacebar, backspace, carriage return and scroll up and down.

Noisy Typer is a FAT Lab speed project by Theo Watson.

Download NoisyTyper.app here ( currently OS X only ):
NoisyTyper-v001.zip

OS X 10.9 Note: Noisy Typer still works with 10.9 but you need to enable the app to have access to the key press information. See this link for info. support.apple.com/kb/HT6026

The software is open source and made with openFrameworks version 0071.
You can download the source code here: NoisyTyperProject.zip

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Posted on July 12, 2012

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    1. Noisy Typer: Turn your Mac into an annoying typewriter | Doobybrain.com says:
      July 15, 2012 at 7:11 am

      […] Watson of the Free Art and Technology lab has released this free little Mac app that turns your relatively silent Mac keyboard into a […]

    2. Jack says:
      July 15, 2012 at 8:06 am

      Any chance a Windows version will be made anytime soon?

    3. yablog says:
      July 15, 2012 at 8:26 am

      Thanks (Merci) for this little nice app that remembers me and old mod of ICQ back to the end of 90’s !

    4. Arun says:
      July 15, 2012 at 11:31 am

      thanks! nice.. i likes!! :)

    5. Noisy Typer | George Germanos says:
      July 15, 2012 at 12:15 pm

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    6. Ann O'Nymous says:
      July 15, 2012 at 1:06 pm

      I’ll be pedantic and point out that typewriters generally only “dinged” when you had reached a certain point across the page and not when you pushed return. Most commonly, this was set at a location a few characters short of the page’s right margin. The bell was supposed to remind you to either push the handle to scroll down the page and return to the start of the line (resulting in the whirring noise) or press return (for typewriters which return automatically). Thanks :-)

    7. Jude says:
      July 15, 2012 at 3:25 pm

      i really love the app. thanks very much and keep the good work

    8. sfmosaic says:
      July 15, 2012 at 7:03 pm

      Can the sound be turned on and off when you want, or does the app have to be deleted?

    9. Noisy Typer: tu mac como una máquina de escribir | LaMalla.cl | Compartiendo el interés por lo interesante says:
      July 15, 2012 at 7:31 pm

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    10. Macで文豪気分を味わえる「Noisy Typer」 | ソフトアンテナブログ says:
      July 15, 2012 at 9:32 pm

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    11. al says:
      July 16, 2012 at 12:06 am

      @sfmosaic

      just press qaz123 to quit the application.

    12. Noisy Typer: So wird der Mac zur Schreibmaschine. | aptgetupdateDE says:
      July 16, 2012 at 2:12 am

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      July 16, 2012 at 2:45 am

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    14. 66 – Clickety click — Cooking Down Under Blog says:
      July 16, 2012 at 5:00 am

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    15. 66 – Clickety click — Cooking Down Under Blog says:
      July 16, 2012 at 5:00 am

      […] just been wallowing in a bit of nostalgia and turned my iMac into a typewriter, courtesy of the Noisy Typer app. This free app reproduces sound of an old typewriter as you […]

    16. Ravi says:
      July 16, 2012 at 7:39 am

      Cool

    17. TechBloggers | Noisy Typer – und der Mac wird zur Schreibmaschine says:
      July 16, 2012 at 7:55 am

      […] missen. Doch das Geräusch des Tippens auf einer Schreibmaschine hat etwas – und mit Noisy Typer bekommen Mac-User nun eine Möglichkeit, die Tippgeräusche einer Schreibmaschine auf den Mac zu […]

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    19. Schreibmaschinengeräusch für Mac OS X – mit Noisy Typer | mac-tools.org says:
      July 16, 2012 at 9:43 am

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    20. frank says:
      July 16, 2012 at 10:36 am

      Really great App! Just one suggestion: I think the noise of cursor right and left should not be the same as of a Character. Maybe it could be the “Delete” noise for “cursor left” and the “space” noise for “cursor right”?

    21. Kevin says:
      July 16, 2012 at 12:02 pm

      So doing that starbucks thing

    22. Make Your Computer Sound Like a Typewriter - AppNewser says:
      July 16, 2012 at 1:49 pm

      […] Check it out: Noisy Typer is a free piece of software which plays typewriter sounds as you type. It runs in the background and works with all applications ( email, web, word etc ). Key sounds include: letter keys, spacebar, backspace, carriage return and scroll up and down. The software is open source and made with openFrameworks version 0071. You can download the source code here: NoisyTyperProject.zip.” […]

    23. Noisy Typer, Mac App That Plays Typewriter Sounds As You Type says:
      July 16, 2012 at 2:09 pm

      […] Noisy Typer is a free Mac app that plays typewriter sounds as you type—just the thing for those whisper quiet work cafés (video). It plays sounds for letter keys, spacebar, backspace, carriage return (enter), and scroll up & down. Noisy Typer was created by Theo Watson of Free Art & Technology. […]

    24. Julian says:
      July 16, 2012 at 2:20 pm

      I know a similar app called Typewriter Keyboard (http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/typewriterkeyboard/Typewriter%20Keyboard.html). But your app is completely free and has better sound effects. I’d appreciate it, if you could add a slim menu feature with toggle on/off and quit function, so I can write my novels about qaz123, the little droid, without turning your app off. :D

    25. TygerFelice says:
      July 16, 2012 at 4:38 pm

      I love this app but for some reason it keeps swtiching off and sometime won’t start? any suggestions? (yes I read the readme file and complied!)

    26. shim says:
      July 16, 2012 at 7:20 pm

      yeah if it’s free but there are no logical pathes/executable files…now what? work on your read me file unless this is dev only.

    27. jay wiese says:
      July 16, 2012 at 7:59 pm

      Nice stereo effect!

      Suggestion for v 2.0: [shift] and [caps lock] should go “ka chunk”

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    29. Patinoz says:
      July 16, 2012 at 8:57 pm

      Works like a charm on my iMac http://cookingdownunder.com/blog/2012/07/66-clickety-click.html

    30. Mahesh says:
      July 16, 2012 at 10:46 pm

      This is awesome. Fun working again.

    31. Noisy Typer – A Typewriter For Your Laptop | This Is Awesome says:
      July 17, 2012 at 1:22 am

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    33. Ray says:
      July 17, 2012 at 7:02 am

      Cool. Next step, an IBM Selectric. And for when you are printing, a Teletype machine. Projector sounds for YouTube, maybe?

    34. Volviendo a lo clásico con Noisy Typer | kiss my bit says:
      July 17, 2012 at 7:15 am

      […] Hoy en “creyéndonos el cuento”, Noisy Typer es un programa gratuito que reproduce sonidos de máquina de escribir a medida que escribes. Se ejecuta en segundo plano y trabaja en todos las plataformas donde escribas, mail, web, block de notas, étc. Si alguna vez utilizaste una máquina de escribir — que es en mi caso — te encantará el conjunto de sonidos, ya que calzan perfectamente. Hasta la barra espaciadora o la tecla de retroceso. Pruébala acá, sólo para Mac: https://fffff.at/noisy-typer-a-typewriter-for-your-laptop. […]

    35. Noisy Typer app plays typewriter sounds as you type | Gizmo Chunk says:
      July 17, 2012 at 8:30 am

      […] that nostalgic typewriter sound to your modern Apple device? The free piece of software, dubbed as Noisy Typer, plays typewriter sounds as you […]

    36. Noisy Typer – Das vielleicht nutzloseste Programm der Welt | Spiegel Offline says:
      July 17, 2012 at 9:27 am

      […] App von Theo Watson verwandelt Euren Computer zumindest akustisch in eine Schreibmaschine. Die Sounds wurden von […]

    37. think320 says:
      July 17, 2012 at 11:08 am

      Come on you windows developers. I really need this to prank my colleagues! :D

    38. Welcome to ShawConnect – Tech Blog – Bring Typewriter Noises To Your MacBook says:
      July 17, 2012 at 11:16 am

      […] it’s completely free? Yes, creator Theo Watson used openFrameworks to build the app, and is giving it away for nothing here. Currently, it is only available for OS […]

    39. ssunsw says:
      July 17, 2012 at 12:08 pm

      I installed the software on my 2011 MacBook Pro (which runs the Lion OS X 10.7.4) and it doesn’t work at all. It’s as if I didn’t even install it. Yes, I read and followed the “Read Me” file. Yes, I enabled the Universal Access feature and checked the box in Preferences. What gives? I was really looking forward to this great program :/

    40. ssunsw says:
      July 17, 2012 at 12:31 pm

      Ok, somehow I got it to work. Only question now is… how do I turn it back on after I “kill it” using the qaz123 command?

    41. Thomas says:
      July 17, 2012 at 1:01 pm

      Need Q10 Editor for Mac:
      http://www.baara.com/q10/

      this Simple Editor is perfect for Noise Typer

    42. Hasan says:
      July 17, 2012 at 1:09 pm

      Great
      I this Idea. I use q10 Editor on Paralles with Windows and i Hear Noisy Typer on my Speaker.

      Thanks for this tip

    43. Noisy Typer app turns your keyboard into a typewriter, provides endless nostalgia | Breaking News Today says:
      July 17, 2012 at 1:32 pm

      […] have a Mac and you’d like to try it out yourself, simply download the Noisy Typer app from the project page, unzip the file, and run it. It’s as simple as that. Long live the […]

    44. Melissa says:
      July 17, 2012 at 5:09 pm

      It doesn’t seem to work for me. :( Followed instructions to the letter!

    45. RRassendyll says:
      July 17, 2012 at 5:44 pm

      Almost a reason to get a Mac again.

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    47. The Camera Bag: Make your computer sound like an old-school typewriter with this free app | pauloinstagram says:
      July 17, 2012 at 7:43 pm

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    48. Keegan says:
      July 17, 2012 at 11:31 pm

      Nice app. Enjoyed using it.

    49. Jane says:
      July 18, 2012 at 12:04 am

      Didn’t work for me, either. Followed all instructions, but as someone else said, it’s like it was never even installed.

    50. The Camera Bag: Make your computer sound like an old-school typewriter with this free app | Digital Camera Updates and Digital Camera Information says:
      July 18, 2012 at 2:00 am

      […] app, which you can download here, works across multiple applications (Word, email, web), mimicking not only the sound of keystrokes […]

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