Monday, April 4, 2016

An App for What?

There really is an App for almost everything,but is that a good thing,or is it dumbing down the population?  For instance there is now an Infant Cries Translator which might sooth nervous first time parents but isn't  it something they should maybe learn on their own?  The app is downloaded to the phone of the parent and when the baby starts crying it is recorded for 15 seconds then compared to a database containing over 200,000 crying sounds for newborn babies. The translator is 92% accurate with babies under 2 weeks, then the percentage falls to 85% between 2 weeks and 2 months and falls again to 77% at the 4 month age. When the app is first downloaded they need the babies age and nationality before the first use...when I first read that I thought babies cry in different languages?? but after a few seconds I decided it was to know what language to use for the parents. Who knows? maybe I was right with my first guess,after all there isn't an app for that.
Since a majority of people aren't fluent in baby talk, a research team developed an app that can decode crying and tell you exactly what your baby's crying means. The Infant Cries Translator can distinguish between four separate crying sounds by recording the sounds of babies and comparing them to a large database
It takes just 15 seconds of the app listening to the crying baby before it makes an analysis. Researchers say the app has shown to be 92 percent accurate among infants under two weeks old. This is a great help for new parents, as the app can notify them if the baby is hungry, sleepy, in pain or even has a wet diaper

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