Another newbie!

haldun

Hello everybody,
I am from Istanbul (the home of Gideros Team). I am a developer in enterprise & telco sector for years. Over the recent years, I wanted to start mobile development as a hobby, however I couldn't have found the passion to spend my spare time on this.

Now, I've a 2 yr old son who is obsessive to any kind of electronics. (As I result, now he owns an ipad. ) ) I wanted to develop some app for him. May be, I can also earn some cash from this. $-) .

So, I started researching and one of my friends told me about Gideros. I thought, it was a great tool for me because I've no idea about x-code, blah, blah. And I don't own a mac for now too. I decided to use Gideros. I started learning the great language Lua. I've read most of the Lua book already. Now, at least I can read Lua book.

There are lots of discussions in the forum for beginners. My question is not on that. I will start with a simple flashcard application. I want the app to be multilingual. However I lack the multimedia resources.

For free pictures, I've found morguefile.com. It is enough for me now. However, I lack a site that provides free speech (e.g. names of fruits, animals) in English, and sounds of animals, etc. Also a free site that provides illustrations will be great. Any suggestions are wellcome.

Thanks to anyone who've read this long post.

Haldun

BJG

Hi Haldun -

A Google search for "royalty free sound effects" turns up various options...

http://www.freesound.org/
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
http://www.soundjay.com/

I'm not sure where you could find a royalty-free collection of spoken words, but it shouldn't be too difficult to record them.

mysps

Welcome!

For art you might find some good images at: http://www.openclipart.org

Good luck with all

phongtt

Welcome @haldun

For audio of English words, I think there's no free good resource. Only 2 options IMO:

- Recording, with a native speaker
- Use Google speech, but it can't be perfect

hgvyas123

@haldun :-

Welcome dude Good luck with your project.

talis

welcome @haldun. Hope you will realize your project.
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jvdm

howdy @haldun - welcome to this great community! i'm a total newb myself, however everyone here has been super friendly and always provide feedback and answers to posts that i've made.

game on!

Scouser

@Haldun Merhaba ve hoş geldiniz. (Hi & welcome for the rest of us English speakers).
Good luck with your project. There are plenty of free animal noises around. Try Here

petec

Welcome. More animal sounds at http://www.stonewashed.net/animal.html

plamen

@Haldun Welcome and you may try this one also http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/

techdojo

Welcome, not to try and dissuade you from using Gideros, but if you already have an iPad but not a Mac, then you might want to look at the Codea app on the app store, it's a lua based development tool but it runs ON the iPad and you don't need anything else to code apps - in a lot of ways it's very similar to Gideros and porting from one to the other is not to difficult.

GregBUG

@haldun
welcome! >:D<

haldun

Thanks to everyone.. It is great to have many feedbacks in hours. Thank u all.

haldun

Welcome, not to try and dissuade you from using Gideros, but if you already have an iPad but not a Mac, then you might want to look at the Codea app on the app store, it's a lua based development tool but it runs ON the iPad and you don't need anything else to code apps - in a lot of ways it's very similar to Gideros and porting from one to the other is not to difficult.

Thanks for your feedback. Codea is very impressive but it is too limiting. You can not publish apps to appstore. Also you've to sacrifice cross-platform development.

My colleague owns a macbook. I'll use it to compile the code.

Edit : Also I own an android phone. Now, I am using it to test my app. I love the freedom of android.

techdojo

Actually there have been several codea apps released on the app store, Two Lives Left have open sourced their "runner" as an XCode project and apparently it's a simple process.

As for limiting - I take it you haven't seen the new shader and camera support in Codea - real time raytracing implemented in shaders, I'd go so far as to say it's actually Gideros that's more limiting in comparison.

However don't get me wrong - I LOVE Gideros (and Codea - in fact programming in general), it's just nice to be aware of different environments so as to be able to choose the best tool for the job.

yvz5

@haldun aramıza hoşgeldin:)

you may want to take a look at this text-to-speech engine: http://www.ivona.com/en/

its really great and better than google.

gorkem

@yvz5 Yavuz I'm looking for a TTS engine - do you know whether their Turkish TTS SDK is available for Android & iOS (not server, but device SDK)?

haldun

@techdojo thanks for your detailed answer. I learn so much from you.

As you said, I didn't know camera support in codea. Unfortunately, I can not spend much time so I can not dive into details much.

Anyway, I'll take your advise and have a look at Codea in detail.

techdojo

@haldun - great, just remember to keep on "Gideros'ing" or else I've had @atilim @deniz and @gorkem after my blood for driving potential customers away

OZApps

@Gorkem would a TTS be added to Gideros? Still are there any good recommendations for TTS that can be run on the device rather than by downloading converted voice files from the net.

gorkem

@ozapps not to the main engine, but as a plugin, yes.

OZApps

That will be great, one that is available on the device, natively?