Keyboard Sounds is a free application that makes any keyboard sound like a Mechanical Keyboard. It includes 16 built in profiles, a profile editor, and application rules.

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Features

Custom Profiles

Support for both Mouse and Keyboard audio profiles
Comes bundled with sixteen built in profiles (15 keyboard, 1 mouse)
Supports Custom profiles through the editors (.wav and .mp3 supported)

Application Rules

Control behavior based on focused application
Enable only in specific apps (text editor, terminal)
Disable for specific games
Localize sound effects to particular applications

Application rules are currently only available for the Windows platform.

Randomized Pitch Shift

Change pitch of sound effects randomly
Set lower and upper bounds
Each key press gets a unique pitch
Creates more natural, varied sound

Custom Profiles

Create and customize your own keyboard sound profiles with support for both mouse and keyboard audio. The editor supports .wav and .mp3 formats, giving you complete control over your typing experience.

Learn more about custom profiles

Application Rules

Keyboard Sounds supports application rules in which you can control the behavior of the sound daemon based on the currently focused application. This powerful feature gives you granular control over when and where keyboard sounds are played, allowing you to customize your audio experience based on your workflow.

This allows you to do things like only enabling in your text editor or terminal, disabling it for specific games, or localizing the sound effects to a particular application. With application rules, you can ensure that keyboard sounds enhance your productivity without becoming a distraction during activities that require focus or silence.

Randomized Pitch Shift

Keyboard Sounds supports randomized pitch shifting in which you can change the pitch of the sound effects to a random value between a lower and upper bound.

When enabled, each time a key is pressed or a mouse click is made, the pitch of the sound effect will be randomized between the lower and upper bound.

Command Line

Keyboard Sounds doesn't have to be installed as a desktop application. It can also be installed as a standalone command line application, giving you the flexibility to control keyboard sounds directly from your terminal. This is perfect for users who prefer command-line tools or want to integrate Keyboard Sounds into their scripting workflows.

1. Install Python

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.

IMPORTANT: 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 application to function correctly.

2. Install the Keyboard Sounds CLI

After you have installed Python, you can install the Keyboard Sounds CLI by running the following command in your terminal.

$ pip install keyboardsounds

3. Using the CLI

To use the Keyboard Sounds CLI, run kbs --help from your command line terminal.

Platform Support: The desktop application is available for Windows and Linux (*). The command line application can be used on any platform that supports Python.

Using Keyboard Sounds with OBS

In order to use Keyboard Sounds with OBS as an isolated audio source, OBS needs a window that it can attach to that's connected to the process running the Daemon. This is not the same process as the desktop application. To work with this, Keyboard Sounds provides a window that can be enabled for the audio daemon.

To enable this window you have several options:

If you ALWAYS want the daemon window: In the Settings tab of the Keyboard Sounds Desktop Application, check the "Enable Daemon Window" option. This will start the daemon window each time that the sound daemon is started by the desktop application.
If you only want the daemon window on demand: You can right-click the Keyboard Sounds tray icon in your system tray and select the "Show Daemon Window" option. This will only work when the daemon is currently running.
If you are using the command line: Run your kbs start command with the -w flag.

Note: On linux, you will need to run sudo apt install python3-tk in order to use the -w flag with kbs start.

Development

Documentation for developers who wish to contribute to this project can be found here.

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