The China Post
Date: June 25, 2016
By: Enru Lin
TAIPEI, Taiwan — What’s baby saying? A team in Taiwan made an app to tell parents if
Nearly 300,000 sounds from 100 newborn babies were gathered at National Taiwan University Hospital’s branch in Yunlin County. (Enru Lin, The China Post)
their baby is hungry, tired, in pain or needs a fresh diaper.
Over three years, researchers collected about 300,000 sounds from 100 newborn babies at National Taiwan University Hospital’s branch in Yunlin County.
They made a smartphone app called Infant Crying Translator, a cloud-based program that can decode the crying of babies from the moment they’re born until they are six months old.
It takes only 15 seconds. Tap “record” in the app and a clip of the infant’s cry is uploaded to a cloud database. The file is quickly compared to an audio library and a verdict pops up onscreen. [FULL STORY]
