Animalese Typing - Desktop

Animalese Typing is a desktop application that plays animalese sound effects as you type!

A desktop version of my Animalese Typing Web Extension. 😊

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Features:

• Animalese Voice While Typing
  Animalese when you type letters.

• Musical Number Keys
  Number keys plays musical notes.

• Special Character Sound Effects
  Unique sound effects play when typing special characters.

• Remappable Keys
  Assign any sound effect/note/animalese to any key.

• Voice Customization
  Choose from 8 Animalese voice types. Change the voices pitch and tone to create a unique voice.

• Animalese-Enabled Apps
  Limit Animalese Typing to only respond when you're focused on specified apps or windows.

Download:

You can download the latest release for Windows, macOS, or Linux from Releases.

Planned Features:

• Get the app signed/notarized - This makes sure the app is recognized as trustworthy for smoother installation
• Uploading Custom Audio Files
• Audio File Editor - Cut and edit attack/sustain/decay for uploaded audio files
• Note Sound Overhaul - Changes on how instrument/singing audio is processed
• More Sounds - More sound effects and instrument sounds for the piano tab

If you want to stay updated on new releases or have any suggestions/feedback, consider joining the Discord!

Running Locally

Set-up:

git clone https://github.com/joshxviii/animalese-typing-desktop.git
cd animalese-typing-desktop
npm install

Linux Dependencies:

Before building on Linux, install the required development libraries:

# Arch Linux 
sudo pacman -S libx11 libxtst libevdev

# Fedora / RHEL
sudo dnf install gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXtst-devel libevdev-devel pkgconf-pkg-config

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt install g++ libx11-dev libxtst-dev libevdev-dev pkg-config

Wayland Support: The Linux key listener supports both X11 and Wayland. For Wayland, the listener uses evdev which requires permission to read /dev/input/. Add your user to the input group:

sudo usermod -aG input $USER

Then log out and back in for the changes to take effect.

Building:

This app uses a child process animalese-listener to recieve global key inputs. These binaries have to be built before packing the rest of the app or running in developer mode.

Windows:	npm run build:win-listner
macOS:	npm run build:mac-listner
Linux:	npm run build:linux-listner

The binary output can be found in /libs/key-listeners.
After that you can run npm run build to build the final .exe/.dmg/.deb/.AppImage

Alternatively you can just run build:[your-os] to build the listener and the app together:

Windows:	npm run build:win
macOS:	npm run build:mac
Linux:	npm run build:linux

The final .exe/.dmg/.deb/.AppImage can found in the /exports folder.

Run in dev mode:

npm start

Credits

Developed by @joshxviii

Contributors: @rokrokss @jiwooh @lorite