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

Icon from CC Flickr photo.

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Posted on July 12, 2012

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    11. Dan Michael says:
      July 18, 2012 at 8:59 am

      Great app! But would it perhaps be more authentic if holding down a key only produced one click sound instead of repeated clicks? It would be super-awesome if a different sound could be made when you released the key after holding it down for a while! :)

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    13. Tina Mammoser says:
      July 19, 2012 at 6:09 am

      Thanks! I learned to type on an electric typewriter so this is a great flashback. :)

    14. jet says:
      July 19, 2012 at 7:27 am

      Comment
      i’m glad with your programme, i’m disabled and years ago i was searching for sounds for my mac.
      so… thanks alot.
      now i can type blind again.
      it’s helping me;-D

    15. yipyipradio says:
      July 19, 2012 at 9:07 am

      Loving this…You guys are great¡¡
      How about sounds from old fashioned computer keyboard?
      ;)

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      Does it work? Nope.

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