Researchers develop app that understand baby’s cries

Naturally, for new mothers, there are apps that will help with caring for an infant. The app that is able to tell what your baby’s crying means was developed by a team of Taiwanese researchers.

It bears mentioning, though, that the app works best with newborn babies, and that the data becomes less accurate as a baby grows older; for infants two weeks old or less, the researchers claim that the app’s batting average is a very strong 92 percent.

“The Infant Cries Translator” is now available to Android and iOS users from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

The app was developed by a team of researchers from the National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin, and it can differentiate between a number of sounds usually generated by babies.

The app can differentiate between four separate crying sounds.

“So far, in response to the suggestions from customers, the accuracy of the app we now have examined can attain ninety two % for infants underneath two weeks previous”, Chuan-yu stated. Even for the four month old baby, the accuracy can reach 77 percent’.

‘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 app can differentiate between when the baby is sleepy, in pain, has a wet diaper, or is just hungry.

Tests have shown the app does become less accurate as the baby gets older, but researchers believe there is little point in using the app after the age of six months because the baby has become more comfortable in its own environment. “It’s a myth that you can tell what’s wrong by the sound of the cry”, Dr. Harvey Karp, a pediatrician in Los Angeles and author of The Happiest Baby on the Block, told Parents.

Parents of newborns or nearly every first-time parents face difficulty in handing their baby while the baby is crying.

Chang explains that once the app is downloaded parents only need to set the date of birth and the newborn’s nationality.

‘After the differentiating process, the analysis result of the sound would be transferred to Mum’s mobile phone’. The Infant Cries Translator records the infant crying and compares the input against an online collection of 200,000 infant cry samples. The couple, who are in their forties said that they were afraid that they wouldn’t understand why their baby was crying.

Brayden is Newsom’s first child and the couple said they are still battling to figure out what their baby needs. Users are charged at $2.99 United States dollars.