2023-09-04 11:45:59
A new medical technology company in Montreal has created a mobile application that would use artificial intelligence to allow new parents to translate their babies’ cries.
“Crying is the primary way newborns express their needs, but parents, especially those who are having their first baby, struggle to interpret them,” co-founder Charles Onu introduced last week. CEO of Ubenwa Health, by statement.
Thus, a Montreal team would have put on the market a free application which would make it possible to analyze the cries of its baby, in order to offer a translation as well as recommendations.
“Clinicians have known this for several decades and learned to listen for these signs. The big question is whether we can now harness advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to make the infant’s cry easy to decipher by anyone,” said neonatologist Dr. Ganesh Srinivasan. at the University of Manitoba, in a news release.
To do so, the free Baby Cry Insights app would use an AI algorithm trained “on thousands of clinically tagged cry recordings” to decipher the reasons, the statement read.
“Soon, parents will receive in-depth health information through a simple recording of their baby’s crying on our platform,” the co-founder continued, noting that the mobile application would be in its infancy.
At present, a beta version, launched two months ago, has already been downloaded and used in 150 countries, according to the research team supported by Montreal AI godfather Yoshua Bengio at the Mila Research Institute, demonstrating according to her “the universality of the problem they are tackling”.
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