An offline picture-card speech app built for a son, Arabic first
A parent with no developer background used Claude Code to build Talking Cards, an offline AAC app with real grammar for Arabic and four other languages.
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- Reddit poster PlaplGames Source ↗
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The full story
The maker's son finds words hard. Picture-tapping speech apps (AAC apps) exist, but the good ones are expensive, most need internet and almost none speak proper Arabic, the family's language. With a background in warehouse operations and Excel macros, the maker opened Claude Code and described what they wished existed.
Talking Cards now has 1,673 picture cards and a grammar engine per language: Claude wrote conjugation logic for Arabic, English, Spanish, French and Turkish. Because device text-to-speech mangles bare Arabic, all speech text carries vowel marks, and Claude wrote tests that fail if any text ships without them. It is offline with no ads or tracking, live on Google Play, and used by families as far away as India and Indonesia.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I'm not an app developer. Claude Code helped me build a speech app for my son — it's live on Google Reddit poster: PlaplGamesPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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