Dubbed the Infant Cries Translator, the app compares the frequencies of a baby’s crying to approximately 200,000 crying sounds the team has collected from about 100 newborns, and in the analysis of these sounds, the researchers have been able to distinguish differences in the acoustics.
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“The Infant Cries Translator can differentiate four different statuses of sounds of baby crying, including hunger, the diaper getting wet, sleepy and pain”, one of the head researchers, Chang Chuan-yu, was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
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Once the baby starts crying, you just push the recording button for 10 seconds, and the sounds will be uploaded to the Cloud Drive.
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Of course, babies of different ages and nationalities have noticeably different cries, so the parent will have to set the baby’s nationality and date of birth in the app before being able to use it. The app would help parents know when their child is hungry, in pain, sleepy, or has a wet diaper.
The accuracy drops exponentially in the next few weeks, with percentages of up to 85% being available for babies up to one or two months, and reaching about 77% for four month old babies.
Working by differentiating between various acoustic elements, like sound frequency, vibration, and even additional sounds that come with the cries, the app then uses the recorded sound to compare to the very large online database, an operation that takes around 15 seconds. According to the Taiwanese researchers, the diagnosis of the app is about 92% accurate for babies of maximum 2 weeks old.
Andrew Salupo, four-months-old, cries as a butterfly lands on his face at the Butterfly Show May 24, 2005 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After that, it analyzes the sound and display the reason of crying on phone’s screen.
“For the new parent like us, we are most afraid of seeing the baby crying and then not knowing what we should do”.
Another incredible thing about the Infant Cries Translator is that its machine learning algorithm allows parents to set up their personal setting for their children.
Naturally, for new mothers, there are apps that will help with caring for an infant. So Mum can depend on the actual situation to determine whether the analysis result is correct or not, to make a revision for the app.
According to pediatrician Chen, “when the new born babies are feeling hungry, they would have a typical response called “Sucking Reflex”.
‘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.
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The Infant Cries Translator can be downloaded from Google Play and App Store at a price of only $2.99 United States dollars. As the child grows, other factors influence their crying making the app less accurate.
