Maggie

Translate baby noises into English using machine learning!

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Translate baby noises into English using machine learning!

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Maggie translates baby cries for 0 to 12 month year olds into 5 essential causes of stress. The translations can help distinguish the unique cries your baby makes. Maggie can bridge the gap for new or inexperienced caregivers by promoting intuitive responses for the best care possible.

Launch tags:Kids•Artificial Intelligence

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I have a real baby; this is a bogus app. After attempting to use for a full day with our 3-month-old, the app rarely waited more than a second or two to begin "translation" and nearly always suggested "I'm uncomfortable" even when it should have detected coo's and giggles in the sample. I try not to write negative reviews, but if this is intended as anything more than a gimmick (which does not appear to be the case based on the website)... no words.

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8yr ago

@sbmarkb Hi Mark, we're sorry you feel that way and we're working on it. Our intentions are to reduce frustration, not increase it. We're currently focusing on stress related cries since we wanted to help caregivers reduce the time it takes to help their babies. We want to eventually look at neutral (boredom, hiccups) as well as positive sounds (laughing), even tracking stages of language development (cooing to babbling for example), and we have a dedicated team trying to do it. Thanks for your time and would like to hear your input, our email is enfanttech@gmail.com

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8yr ago

Alive With Me

It's a good problem to solve, and there are definitely patterns that can be surfaced that new parents might miss.

Pros:

You can decipher what a baby is trying to say. Can be trivial to life saving

Cons:

Not sure what the signal to noise ratio for a baby is. Thus, not sure how well the app can translate. Better than nothing though!

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8yr ago

Thanks Allen, We really appreciate the review. We want to help parents be less stressed, not more, so thank you for understanding that we're in the early stages of development. It looks like we should be more specific about Maggie being used for identifying stressors that cause the baby to cry. We hope to eventually integrate neutral and positive sound identification, but discovered that parents could really use the help in stressful situations. We have infant vocalization experts who are developing a way to see how your baby's communications change over time (Cooing to babbling and to the stars!). We hope modern parents will have more information to help care for their children then ever before. We're working on making the app more accurate and useful and we're open to feedback from anyone interested at enfanttech@gmail.com

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8yr ago

I am no ML expert, but I am concerned if this app is going to work on all babies, dataset the model is trained on might be too narrow, since from what I can tell, the sounds of babies differ and not all babies give same expression, I have so many cousins, there might be also sound differences by region. I am excited to try this on my cousin, hoping their parents just don't get mad at me for doing this, when I think they do a pretty good job of understanding their kids. Also, I would really like to see them integrate Visual Recognition into their product, from what I can tell facial expressions are just as much important or sometimes even more than the sound of the cry. So using visual recognition will make this much more usable and even more accessible for guardians.

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8yr ago

@hannan_ali Hi Hannan, thank you for voicing your concerns and we really appreciate your input. Maggie is made for immediate active listening uses but we hope to make a home solution that will eventually make the whole process hands free. We think an integrated solution with visual detection would be a brilliant idea for giving the best care possible for your infant. We'd love to hear your experience and how we can improve it. Any input helps us try to help new caregivers provide better care, send us an email at enfanttech@gmail.com

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8yr ago