I thought this mutes(disables) the inbuilt keyboard on my macbook. Would be super helpful for me since my son randomly presses key on my macbook keyboard while I'm trying to type from my external keyboard.
I thought this was going to be an app that emits some kind of inverse sound through the laptop speakers to neutralize the keypress sound in real life. I wonder if that's possible.
I'm not really using my mac much, so not for me. Interesting though - I've thought it would be neat to have something that's similar though different.
Imagine a keyboard which was itself a mini computer. You could program macros into the keyboard itself, and then have them issued to the computer. Instead of the keyboard being a dumb entry into the computer, it becomes more like of an input client.
From seeing your product I realise - you could do something similar to this with the keyboard driver, and then have all the benefit of a high quality off-the-shelf keyboard.
I wish! I spent a long time considering if I could detect keyboard sounds through the active microphone and mute on a certain decibel level or typing velocity, etc. or even get as fancy as that sort of noise-cancelling approach. In the end I went with a much more simplistic MVP - though I hope to explore more interesting ways to optimize in the future.
I'm gonna guess that it does a couple things, but the main one is the shape you create with each touch, since you can type without typing on the keyboard itself.
This is a cool idea! I can see it being totally feasible and definitely useful as a piece of software (not part of your keyboard) toggled by a key combination.
It sounds intriguing, lots of folks are critiquing off the cuff. I remember Spell Catcher for the Mac has a you-made-a-typo sound, which was helpful, then again it at times was irritating as it was like some guy behind your shoulder kibitzing as you were typing and interrupted your flow.
Though I would think that maybe keysounds might be a good thing though, as an audible confirmation you typed the right key... not as a punishment, just a confirmation.
I'd go with something as minimal as possible at first and then try variations... you might even be able to take some OSS editor and hook some test code into it.
Lastly How many folks would want to turn on a Hacker's "Gibson Keyboard" sound just to have the cheap thrill now and again?
I thought I remembered windows saying it detected a new keyboard device, or my brain may have invented that part. I'll see if I can't find it laying around and see how it actually worked.
I just gave it a try myself. My mic isn't as nice (Logitech C920) but my keyboard is also pretty loud (Das Keyboard Prime 13). I gave it two tries and it didn't even get within an order of magnitude on the number of keystrokes, let alone what the keystrokes are.
I'm not dunking on them. This is a really really hard problem. My comment is more that I'm not worried about this as a viable threat just yet.
This is nice. Do you think you could add support for the keyboard media keys (back, forward, pause, etc.) and volume controls present on the standard mac keyboard?
Still, a slick utility. Good luck !!
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