Apparently, determining the meaning of a baby's cry is as simple as pointing your iPhone at a crying child, hitting a start button and waiting 10 seconds.
Within this time, the cry is analysed and identified by an application and parents are provided with tips on what to do next.
Introducing the Cry Translator iPhone application designed by Barcelona company Biloop Technologic. The company promises the application will provide parents with a 96 percent-accurate indication as to why their child is crying, which works by identifying the five emotional or physiological states of a child: hunger, fatigue, annoyance, stress or boredom.
And the designers of the application, Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca, have an answer for the sceptics who say that every baby's cry is different. They claim that the Cry Translator uses a technology that does not just rely on a cry's tone or pitch, but matches it with an established pattern to get the translation, the UK's Daily Mail reported.
The company's website details the benefits of the application, which include easing the anxiety associated with calming a crying infant, building confidence in understanding and comforting your infant and helping to reduce overall infant crying.
Originally, the technology was going to be used as a hand-held device, but the creators decided to design it as an iPhone application instead, the Daily Mail reported.
During the initial design stages, the device was tested on 104 children at a hospital in Spain. The research found that when the tips to stop the baby from crying were followed 96 percent of them stopped crying.
The application is available through the Apple App Store and costs $12.99.
