California Neuropsychologist Developed Child Crying Translator
'01.06.2018'
Source: Voice of America
How to understand baby language? A neuropsychologist from California has developed a program for a smartphone that “decrypts” children's crying.
“Maybe she has a wet diaper, or she’s hungry or tired, or she’s just bored,” says Scott Williamson, Jolie’s father and husband of the neuropsychologist who came up with a smartphone program that “decodes” baby crying.
Neuropsychologist from the University of California, mother of four children Ariana Anderson figured out how to decipher the baby crying.
“When my third child was born, I realized that her cry is similar to the cry of two other children, and I can understand what she wants,” - said Ariana.
As a result, she developed an application that was already called “Shazam” for crying babies.
All that needs to be done is to bring the smartphone to the crying child - and the program translates from “child” to “adult”.
So far, the application has only three states: hunger, pain and just whims. But the task of the developers is to teach the device to recognize all possible emotions.
This application, as it turned out, well identifies the needs of adults.
The program is designed not only for young couples. According to Ariana, she can be a good help for hearing-impaired parents, and also helps to recognize autism and neurological disorders.
“We want people to know the diagnosis as early as possible, and not wait until the child turns 5 years old and goes to kindergarten ...”, - says Ariana.
Intonational pattern of crying in carriers of different languages may be different. Ariana and her colleagues want to understand how babies of different nationalities cry, so they collect information for the application from all over the world.
