diff --git a/notNeededPackages.json b/notNeededPackages.json
index 7d0ab64e55..2e9d509808 100644
--- a/notNeededPackages.json
+++ b/notNeededPackages.json
@@ -3624,6 +3624,12 @@
             "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/snoowrap",
             "asOfVersion": "1.19.0"
         },
+        {
+            "libraryName": "snowboy",
+            "typingsPackageName": "snowboy",
+            "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy",
+            "asOfVersion": "1.3.1"
+        },
         {
             "libraryName": "soap",
             "typingsPackageName": "soap",
diff --git a/types/snowboy/index.d.ts b/types/snowboy/index.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index df8ab04515..0000000000
--- a/types/snowboy/index.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// Type definitions for snowboy 1.2
-// Project: https://github.com/Kitt-AI/snowboy
-// Definitions by: Dolan Miu <https://github.com/dolanmiu>
-// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-
-/// <reference types="node" />
-
-import { Stream } from "stream";
-
-export type State = "sound" | "silence" | "hotword" | "error";
-
-export class Detector extends Stream {
-    constructor(params: any);
-
-    on(event: State | symbol, callback: (index: any, hotword?: any, buffer?: Buffer) => void): this;
-}
-
-export class Models {
-    add(params: any): void;
-}
diff --git a/types/snowboy/snowboy-tests.ts b/types/snowboy/snowboy-tests.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index f574475fbc..0000000000
--- a/types/snowboy/snowboy-tests.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-import { Detector, Models } from "snowboy";
-import * as fs from "fs";
-
-const models = new Models();
-
-models.add({
-    file: 'resources/snowboy.umdl',
-    sensitivity: '0.5',
-    hotwords: 'snowboy'
-});
-
-const detector = new Detector({
-    resource: "resources/common.res",
-    models,
-    audioGain: 1.0
-});
-
-detector.on('silence', () => {
-    console.log('silence');
-});
-
-detector.on('sound', (buffer) => {
-    // <buffer> contains the last chunk of the audio that triggers the "sound"
-    // event. It could be written to a wav stream.
-    console.log('sound');
-});
-
-detector.on('error', () => {
-    console.log('error');
-});
-
-detector.on('hotword', (index, hotword, buffer) => {
-    // <buffer> contains the last chunk of the audio that triggers the "hotword"
-    // event. It could be written to a wav stream. You will have to use it
-    // together with the <buffer> in the "sound" event if you want to get audio
-    // data after the hotword.
-    console.log('hotword', index, hotword);
-});
-
-const file = fs.createReadStream('resources/snowboy.wav');
diff --git a/types/snowboy/tsconfig.json b/types/snowboy/tsconfig.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a013bcb02..0000000000
--- a/types/snowboy/tsconfig.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "compilerOptions": {
-        "module": "commonjs",
-        "lib": [
-            "es6"
-        ],
-        "noImplicitAny": true,
-        "noImplicitThis": true,
-        "strictNullChecks": true,
-        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
-        "baseUrl": "../",
-        "typeRoots": [
-            "../"
-        ],
-        "types": [],
-        "noEmit": true,
-        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
-    },
-    "files": [
-        "index.d.ts",
-        "snowboy-tests.ts"
-    ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/types/snowboy/tslint.json b/types/snowboy/tslint.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 3db14f85ea..0000000000
--- a/types/snowboy/tslint.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }