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A baby Cry translator -there’s an app for that?

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November 5, 2009 Shannon Schmid 6 Comments

An iphone application that can tell you why your baby is crying?? Really??


OK – so as many of you know from my previous post – I’m in the midst of learning how to use my new iphone. I’ve been on the hunt for applications that might be especially helpful for a stay at home mom. I’ve found grocery list organizers, lots of fab music apps, educational learning tools… there is an app for just about anything you can think of!

Want proof? I stumbled upon an app today, called The Cry Translator.

The Cry translator uses the microphone in an iPhone or iPod touch, to listen to a baby’s cry and place it within five distinct “crying categories” all within 10 seconds! The categories include hungry, sleepy, annoyed, stressed or bored. Assuming this app could actually work, I’m sure there would be parents all over the globe clamoring for it. There are few things as difficult as listening to your baby cry when you don’t know what to do to make things better. That said…I’m skeptical.


Babies cries change as they get older, yet this application claims it can work regardless of age. Does that mean if *I* cry – it can tell me if I’m stressed or annoyed? Because that would be really helpful. It would also help, if it would recommend solutions to my “stress” or “sleepiness”, perhaps a nap, or glass of wine for mommy? The company releasing this app has studies that say the Cry Translator is correct 96% of the time. I could use that kind of accuracy! I can just imagine me telling my husband “sweetie, the cry translator says there is a 96% chance that I need a long hot bath. So yeah, I better go do that.” Heee heee.

In all seriousness though – isn’t it crazy the apps that are out there?? Sometimes looking through the itunes store seems like a science fiction book come to life. Could the cry translator possibly work?? If it did work, would you buy it?

I don’t know, jury is still out on this for me…hmnnn.

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Shannon traded in her sensible NYC TV producer shoes (they were best for taking the subway), for a pair of Texas Cowboy boots when she married her best friend! He's at fault for making this Yankee a Texan! Shannon writes about all things that make a house a home. Her chief blogging inspiration is being the proud & slightly neurotic mom of a preschool age daughter.

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  1. Tori says

    November 5, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Milk and Cuddles is on my page:) Thanks for the feedback!!:)

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  2. SweetPea --The Inner Workings of the "Rice" Mind says

    November 5, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    Yes, there does indeed seem to be an app for just about everything. I wish the apps that you had to pay for offered a "30 day free trial" before you buy. As you know, I too am a recent iPhone owner and having a love for taking and editing photos I've found myself purchasing a few "apps for that" and ultimately deleting them because they didn't do what I expected them to do.

    An app to discern a baby's cry? Call me old fashioned, but wouldn't a mother be the best "App" for that? I have a difficult time wrapping my mind around an app that can discern our every mood/need.

    As for purchasing the App, their Apps definitely do not run high in the $$ department, but do some research & I've noted that skimming through the Apps through the iTunes software offers more info (photos) etc than when you are searching through your phone!

    Good luck!

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  3. Nikki says

    November 5, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    That is totally crazy and weird and I might sound like a ludite, but I can't go that technological! I don't want to have a baby one day and have to rely on a machine to tell me what they're feeling, ya know? Martin had this funny doggy bark translater, we tried to use it on Lealu but she it was really hard to get her to bark! I don't think it worked though it kept saying she was hungry even after she was done eating!

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  4. Michael says

    November 5, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    Super cute blog, sweetie. I love your sense of humor and writing style. Good luck, however, convincing me your iPhone suggested I pour you a glass of wine and run you a bubble bath. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    As for whether that app would really work for a baby… hmmm. A recent study (www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)01824-7) suggests the cries of infants as young as three days old already reflect the language their parents speak.

    So one wonders if there would need to be an app for each country or even specific regions within countries. I'm guessing, based upon that study's results, baby's from the Bronx might cry differently than those from Savanna?

    When Molly was little and I didn't know why she was crying, I'd have paid almost anything for that app. As a newbie parent it used to break my heart she was crying and I didn't know what to do to help her.

    Again, love your blog. Thanks for the laugh. No, I'm not talking about the bath part. You can have a nice bubble bath when I get home. I'll run the bath and pour the wine. Love you tons!

    ~Daddy

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  5. Danielle says

    November 6, 2009 at 2:42 am

    I'm wondering if there are really more than five reasons why a baby cries… and if they're going to give you five is that really helpful??

    um your crying but it could be a)needing to be changed
    b) your hungry
    c) your tired
    d) your full and therefore disregard B…
    e) you are happy.

    there is not much else yet right? I dunno but really if they gave me all those id be like 'YOUR NOT HELPING"
    hahaha

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  6. Veronica says

    November 10, 2009 at 3:01 am

    That is crazy! I can't believe there is an app for that. I wonder how many people use it.

    I don't have an iphone, but if I did, I wouldn't use that app.

    Reply

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