iPhone baby translator app set to revolutionize weaning?

Funny – I think Maggie Simpson used one of those in a show years back….

There IS some effort to teach the very young ones some kind of sign language. Seems to work….

When my daughter started to talk, she sort of scrambled the words, and invented her own. It was easier (for a while) to learn her language than to try to teach her mine. Drove my wife nuts….

Baby’s cries do have meaning – (yes just like words) They were clearly distinguishable. Between my wife and I, we had it sussed. We only found 3 though, hungry, dirty, and sleepy. By the time we had our third kid we were keeping the screaming to a minimum. I don’t know if a machine would hear the difference though, seems pretty unlikely to me.

So is this a sneaky way to be able to play ’shake the baby’ again?
You pick a particular cry, wait till the phone identifies it, and then you can pick up and shake the shit out of a real baby instead of just jiggling your iPhone like the original app.

gah gah goo

Babies’ cries ARE recognizable.
That an app could do it is highly likely.
The ISSUE, however is why.
Parents can (or should be able to – particularly with attention and training.) also do this. IF a parent isn’t learning to pay attention to the needs of an infant, what will they do for the child’s FUTURE development?

Oh! There’ll be an app for that, too?

(Oh, and “iKare4U”, you are an idiot!)