Baby Language

The Manual for babies

Learn how to distinguish and handle each baby cry

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Try it for free and see how you can learn how to distinguish baby cries

Charity for children

With every purchase in our app
we donate to a charity for children

Distinguish baby cries

The Baby Language app teaches you the ability to distinguish different types of baby cries yourself. It comes with a support tool to help you in the first period when learning to distinguish baby cries. It points you in the right direction by real-time distinguishing baby cries and translating them into understandable language.

  • Tool to help distinguishing your first baby cries
  • Real-time feedback with every cry
  • No internet connection required
  • Designed solely for teaching you this skill

Guides and Illistrations

The Baby Language app shows you many different ways on how to handle each specific cry. It provides you with lots of information and illustrations on how to prevent or reduce all different kind of cries.

  • Instructions on how to distinguish baby cries yourself
  • Many illustrations and ways on how to handle each cry
  • Explanation on why each cry has its own sound
  • Lots of tips and tricks to reduce or prevent your baby from crying

What They Said

Olga Kaźmierczak

Great app! Really helpfull. After using it 3 weeks i could recognize what my twins need. THANK YOU!

Damien Palacios

I am a dad who struggles a little with the crying of baby this application helps me a lot to know what is bothering my baby. I recommend to all parents struggling with babies who cry a lot.

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ShailaLee Workman

Love this app, it's for training your ear to help identify. Gives you great samples. Used for a day and I'm love. Very user friendly

Mayra Quintana

it should be cheaper ! only used it 4 times.

our comment: please don't use the app only for the recognition tool, the sole purpose of the tool is providing support during the first stages of learning the cry distinguish skill yourself. The purpose of the app is to teach, its not the intention to use the tool endlessly to tell what to do and to stay ignorant yourself. After this review, we rated and lowered most prices according to the Big Mac index.

Văn Hưng Võ

Thanks to this app we can understand what babies want to do and thanks to what we can care more about babies! I really like it

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Lu Rubio

It is paid. It only lets you try it once and then go to checkout

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our comment: we have now extended the trial period from a few minutes to an entire day

M.abdulloh Isnain

Not bad for my son

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Shairene Engo

it tells me the baby is burping but it was just talking to the mic

our comment: the support tool is meant to distinguish different baby cries. To prevent too much filtering, it deliberately has no filter that validates whether a real baby is crying. That is why the tool also reacts to other sounds, but it only has the right meaning for a real crying baby and not a talking baby.

Carolina Robles

I'm a babysitter and I tried it, he didn't recognize me crying, I don't know why I'll try again in another situation

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our comment: the support tool does not work well with adults or children trying to imitate a crying baby

Ana Sofia Costa

Good help for inexperienced parents

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Akangsha goel

It's pretty accurate. Loving it.

Adriana Guizelini

Wow what a relief this app.me brought

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Juliya Yagiello

It matches!

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Goh Chenhwang

Is not free

Marjan Buter

handy app to get to know and discover the different cryments. As a guide, it doesn't have to be that way of course

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Grecia

Worth every penny !!! 👍🏼👶🏻

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Contributors

Toine de Boer

Founder and Developer

Sthefany Louise

UI/UX Designer

An Boetman

Dutch translator
and coordinator

Paul Romijn

Webdesigner

Robin Tromp Boode

Spanish translator

Émilie Nicolas

French translator

Federica Scaccabarozzi

Italian translator

Lea Schultze

German translator

Rosmeilan Siagian

Indonesian translator

Sarita Kraus

Portuguese translator

Yulia Tsybysheva

Russian translator

Erick Flores Sanchez

3D Graphic artist

Sameh Ragab

Arabic translator

In the media

Ouders van Nu (edition 10 | 2018)

Ouders van Nu

Magazine

Thanks to Baby Language I really got to know my child better. I now know how to find out what is bothering him and more important; How to prevent his inconveniences. He hardly cries anymore.

TechWibe

TECHWIBE

Technology News Website

Baby Language one of the must have Android apps
if you are a parent with small baby
TechWibe

Questions & Answers

What scientific studies have been done regarding baby cries?
Many studies have been done regarding baby cries and other subjects related to baby discomfort.

Papers and Researches:
  • A Biological Signal-Based Stress MonitoringFramework for Children Using Wearable Devices (2017)
    Yerim Choi, Yu-Mi Jeon, Lin Wang, Kwanho Kim
  • Baby Cry Recognition in Real-World Conditions (2014)
    Ioana-Alina Bănică, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, Dragoş Burileanu, Corneliu Burileanu Speech and Dialogue Research Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  • An Automatic Infant’s Cry Detection Using Linear Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (LFCC) (2014)
    Miss Varsharani V Bhagatpatil, Prof.V.M.Sardar
  • Infant Crying: Pattern of Weeping, Recognition of Emotion and Affective Reactions in Observers (2013)
    Mariano Chóliz, Enrique G. Fernández-Abascal, Francisco Martínez-Sánchez, Cambridge University
  • Recognition of a Baby's Emotional Cry Towards Robotics Baby Caregiver (2012)
    Shota Yamamoto, Yasunari Yoshitomi, Masayoshi Tabuse, Kou Kushida, Taro Asada
  • Infant cry analysis and detection (2012)
    Cohen, R. Lavner, Y. In Proceedings of the IEEE Convention of ElectricalElectronics Engineers in Israel
  • ......

Some Hypothetical theories:
  • Dunstan Baby Language
    Priscilla Dunstan
  • 9 Kinds of Baby's Cry
    Nurma Arum
  • The social abilities of newborns
    Gwen Dewar, Ph.D.
Is this baby cry theory scientifically proven?
No, we have not conducted an official scientific study to investigate our specific theory, the theory is currently based on our own experiences, research papers from others and our own research into digital characteristics of different baby crying sounds. We are planning to start a scientific study in the future to further improve our theory. We will never focus on scientifically proving the correctness of our theory, because the theory can never be fully scientifically proven as a 100% fact and we always want to keep room open for discussion.

To give meaning to the above a quote from an article in Forbes:

If someone tells you a scientific theory has been proven, you should ask what they mean by that. Normally, they mean "they've convinced themselves that this thing is true," or they have overwhelming evidence that a specific idea is valid over a specific range. But nothing in science can ever truly be proven. It's always subject to revision.

This doesn't mean it's impossible to know anything at all. To the contrary, in many ways, scientific knowledge is the most "real" knowledge that we can possibly gain about the world. But in science, nothing is ever proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. As Einstein himself once said:
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "Yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will someday experience its "No"—most theories, soon after conception.
source: Forbes - Scientific Proof Is A Myth
Are there similar theories about baby cries?
Yes, there are similar theories, not all have the same in common with our theory. Basically all of the theories have a common component based on the principle that the sound of a baby cry has a relationship with the cause of the cry.

Most theories only focus on sound. Although our app has a tool that only works with sound, our focus on sound and physical characteristics is equally important in our theory. Therefore, the tool should never be blindly followed as it cannot include physical characteristics in its reasoning. The tool is really only intended to give support during the learning process on recognizing the vocal characteristics.
How does the baby cry recognition tool work?
The support tool is only there to support during the learning process for recognizing vocal characteristics appropriate to the various baby cries. Our theory is not only about recognizing vocal characteristics but also about recognize physical signs, the support tool only helps you with the vocal part.

These steps are done by the recognition support tool:
  1. Recognize beginning and endings of sounds
  2. Filter by validating length of sound
  3. Determine the sound likelihoods for all cry types
  4. Do probability calculation using few previous recognized sounds of the same session
  5. Determine display result with algorithm that prioritizes result based on most recent sound
The recognition tool doesn't check whether its really a baby crying or not. We have created such a check system in the past and filtered out the non-cries, but this resulted in missing some of the baby cries. Because of that the filter has been removed and all sounds are treated like a baby cry. This gives the best final result and the absence of this filter should not be a problem if you prevent background noise and won't talk through the recordings.