Now Available, Technology Translator Tears Baby

WASHINGTON - It's not easy to translate the meaning of a baby crying. Mothers usually only guessing when the baby cries. They only understand the baby's cry as a form of communication to express discomfort as when his diaper is wet, hungry, sleepy, tired, scared, or hurt.

Japanese scientists continually strive to translate infant cries. The goal is to assist parents in caring for their babies.

Often parents, difficult to understand the meaning of her crying baby, especially at night. Various techniques have been developed by scientists to determine the 'meaning' of a baby crying.

In 1970, Mitsuo Nagamachi of Hiroshima International University developed a technique called kansei engineering to measure the baby's emotions based on facial expressions and behavior of infants.

Now Tomomasa Nagashima of computer science Muroran Institute of Technology, developed a new technique to translate the meaning of a baby crying.

Times Of India, Saturday (27/02/2010) launch, Tomomasa uses voice analysis to classify whether the baby crying crying crying baby is 'normal' or crying because of the pain.

Tomomasa his team claimed, based on sound analysis techniques and frequency of crying babies, then one hundred percent intention of crying can be known.

Tomomasa new technique will be published in the Journal of International Journal of Biometrics.

The findings were published in the International Journal of Biometrics.

Actually translator crying baby is not the first time in thorough or created by scientists, One is a cell phone (mobile phone) smart, the iPhone is now trying to answer the challenge by launching the application of 'The Cry Translator' or the cry of a baby translator. As quoted from the pages of The Telegraph, Wednesday, May 10, 2011.

Creator of 'The Cry Translator', Antonio Portugal Ramírez, stating that the application is sold for £ 17.99 it is able to translate the meaning of crying babies with an accuracy of 96 percent. The app works by analyzing each squall caught the iPhone microphone. Furthermore, the application will display the meaning of the baby crying on the phone screen.

Antonio is a pediatrician from Spain. He experimented created because the application was challenged to develop his research. He created the application was based on the results of research that can be translated crying baby in five languages ​​is hungry, annoyed, tired, stressed and bored.

However, advanced applications it received criticism from experts parent of Netmums.com, Siobhan Freegard. Application of concern that it will override the power of reason and instinct of the mother to the baby. "In fact, learning to understand the baby's cry is a natural part of the process to create a bond and good communication between mother and child," said Siobhan.