Add sound effects to your typing experience.
Keyboard Sounds is a tool that runs in your system tray and plays sound effects when you type on your keyboard. It comes with a variety of sound profiles to choose from, and you can even create your own custom profiles.
Keyboard Sounds can be installed as a desktop application or as a Python package. The desktop application is recommended for most users as it is easier to install and use.
Currently the desktop application is only available for Windows. The Python package can be used on any platform that supports Python.
The desktop application still requires the Python package to be installed on your system. On first launch, the application will check that both Python and the required Python packages are installed.
- Make sure when you install Python that you check the box that says "Add Python to PATH". This will allow you to run Python from the command line, which is a requirement for the desktop application to function correctly.
You may need to restart the application after doing this for the changes to take effect.
To install this application as a CLI utility via the Python package, you will need to have Python installed on your system. You can download Python from the official website.
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Make sure when you install Python that you check the box that says "Add Python to PATH". This will allow you to run Python from the command line.
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After you have installed Python, you can install the Keyboard Sounds CLI by running the following command in your terminal.
$ pip install keyboardsounds
This application supports custom profiles in which you can provide your own WAV or MP3 files to be used for the different keys pressed.
Read more about creating and editing profiles here.
Keyboard Sounds has a comprehensive backend that can be used to manage the daemon, application rules, and profiles. This backend can be accessed via the command line interface (CLI) in your terminal application.
Read more about backend usage here.
You can uninstall the Keyboard Sounds Desktop Application from the "Apps" section of your system Settings application.
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Uninstalling the desktop app will not remove the Python package from your system, you will need to do this manually if you no longer wish to use the Python package using the following command:
$ pip uninstall keyboardsounds
Documentation for developers who wish to contribute to this project can be found here.