An app to find out why Baby is crying: Undoubtedly, parenting is not an easy job at all. “The Infant Cries Translator can differentiate between four different statuses of sounds of a baby’s cry, including hunger, a wet diaper, sleepiness, and pain”.
Brandon and Abby Newsom, couple that last week was blessed with a baby boy Brayden, said the bliss that comes with being new parents also comes with a lot of crying from the baby, but this $3 app will prove very beneficial for them. It would be quite a tough task for any new parent to trace out why exactly their baby is crying.
Over the past two years, the National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin has been collecting crying sounds from different newborn babies.
‘Once the baby cries, we only need to press the recording button for 10 seconds, and the sound will be uploaded to the Cloud Drive’. The only point the user has to keep in mind is that in order to detect the reason of crying the baby must cry for at least 15 seconds. Once users download the app, the baby’s birth date and nationality must be entered to provide accurate results. “You have to listen to the response of your kid”.
The app can differentiate between when the baby is sleepy, in pain, has a wet diaper, or is just hungry. Another fantastic thing about the Infant Cries Translator is that its machine learning algorithm allows parents to set up their personal setting for their children.
The app is 92 percent accurate in distinguishing the crying sound of newborn babies under two weeks old and becomes less accurate as the child grows older. Chuan-yu said that in the case of four months old baby, the accuracy can touch 77%.
The other head researcher of the project, Dr. Chen Si-da, explained when infants are hungry they usually show signs of “Sucking ‘Reflex”.
The researchers clarified that using the app to children aged six months old would be pointless because, by then. children’s behavior will be affected by the environment. They uploaded the sounds onto an online database-analyzing the frequency of individual screams.
Parents can rate the accuracy of the result and make revisions. ‘Adding our app to make a judgment the parents don’t have to have medical knowledge’. ‘So we can accurately understand the cause of this reaction is hunger on the basis of the medical judgment’.
The Infant Cries Translator is available on iOS and Android via the App Store, and also Google Play, since early 2015 at a cost of $2.99.
