A research team from UCLA has finally achieved the impossible. They have developed an app that can read infants’ minds.
Chatterbaby is a cutting-edge app based on AI technology. It can analyze any infant’s crying to determine the infant’s problem. Crying patterns are broken-down into three categories – pain, hunger and fussiness. Cries are then analyzed by algorithm. They are compared against a catalogue of more than 2,000 infant cries.
Chatterbaby can accurately describe an infant’s mood more than 90% of the time.
The app is surprisingly easy to use. Parents can download the Chatterbaby app for free. It is available on Apple or Android. Parents then record and upload their baby’s crying. The app analyzes each type of cry. All personal information is filtered out. Cries are analyzed by algorithms, not people. Parents are assured a healthy degree of privacy.
Chatterbaby has many advantages. It was originally developed to assist deaf parents better understand their infants’ needs. Chatterbaby also has a more obvious, wider use. New parents – unaccustomed to communicating with infants – can use the app for assistance. Just about every new parent could use it! Researchers also hope to use Chatterbaby to earlier detect developmental disabilities such as autism. Early detection of autism can make a world of difference for children.
Chatterbaby was developed by a research team led by Ariana Anderson. She is an assistant professor in residence of psychiatry and biobehavior sciences at the School of Medicine at UCLA. Anderson is also a parent of four children. Sometimes, it takes a mother . . .
