The Internation Journal of Biometrics recently published an article by Hiroshima International University researchers. The researchers claim to have created a computer program that analyses a childs cry and identifies what the child is trying to communicate.

The researchers admit that they are relying on the Parents’ judgement as to what the cry means to determine the success of their software.

We here at TheBestBabyMonitors blog believe that although this might sound great, it’s unlikely to be as good as the instinctual judgement a Parent can make as to the needs of their child.

There could possibly be a use for it in the context of Baby Sitting as a kind of ‘proxy’ for the Parents experience, but we’ll reserve judgement until we actually get to test one for ourselves.

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