Animal Fun

Animal Fun is a simple animal learning program for children. Children learn about animals by seeing and hearing the sounds an animal makes. It combines an easy-to-use interface and fun sound effects to entertain children while they learn.

iPad Screenshots

Features

• 50+ animals
• touch/tap to change animal
• hear the animal name, the animal sound effect, or the animal name spelled
• individual letters are highlighted as the animal name is being spelled
• set the default sound when the animal is first shown to “Animal Name”, “Animal Sound”, or “Spell Name”

Usage Considerations

Please make sure the PHONE IS NOT IN SILENT MODE (the switch on the side of the phone should be up) and Settings | General | Sound Effects is set to BOTH.

You need to use headphones or an external speaker on a first generation iPod Touch (as it has no external speaker).

Additional Info

The animal pictures and sound effects are from the free Tux Paint desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux) drawing program for children. You can download it for free at http://tuxpaint.org .

Animal Fun is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License .

Technical Notes

The scripts/data_prep.rb file is used for preparing the image and audio files from the TuxPaint stamps package and also generating json metadata used by the Animal Fun application. SoX is used to convert the .ogg audio files to .aiff.