flip Your Emails into a Symphony With Typatone

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October 9, 2015 closing 12 months, we covered Jono Brandel and Lullatone‘s addictive site Patatap, which turns keyboard strokes into sounds and animations. Now they’re are again at it with Typatone, an app that turns textual content into a wonderful little xylophone melody.

Like Patatap, Typatone places a observe to every keystroke, and typing out a message composes a music. Pause for a 2d and it would play the melody again for you. ship in an email, text or tweet, and your recipient will hear the tune of your message while they read. test it out:

To design the app, Brandel researched which letters within the English language have been used most regularly (E, A and O) and least frequently (Q and Z), then Lullatone mapped the letters to totally different tones. “When Lullatone compose tune they’ve a mental map of various melodies and notes that sound just right together,” says Brandel of the japanese composer duo. So once they paired the notes with letters, “the most generic letters that occur are melodic [notes] and the least widespread are accent notes—truly, in reality excessive notes and in between bass notes.”

From there, the team thought of how sound and visuals may mimic and give a boost to the writing experience. One factor they closely regarded as was once speed—how the method of writing oscillates between being energetic (typing) and passive (pausing to learn what you have got typed), one thing that they echoed in the playback perform. “Patatap was a novel software and very upfront concerning the interplay,” says Brandel. “With Typatone we wanted to maintain center of attention on writing. We wished to create a nuanced and subtle experience.”

nonetheless, he could not withstand including a number of hidden thrives. seem to be closely and you’ll notice that the gradient history slowly changes colors with the time, rising darker and deeper as day wears on. The tones alternate reasonably too, though which is more difficult to capture without a skilled ear.

the ultimate shock Brandel is extra reticent to tricky on. “for those who kind a definite phrase, we hardcoded a tune that automatically performs,” he says coyly. a touch: it has to do with a definite date. (it’s not happy Birthday, I checked.)

give Typatone a go above, or head over to the website for the entire experience.

[All images: courtesy Jono Brandel]