This is a series of product introductions that were Finalists in the 2016 BabyTechAward. Starling won the Grand Prize for the best learning product for babies.
Focusing on research showing that how many words (vocabulary words) a child has heard by the age of 4 can affect his/her later acquisition of conversation and vocabulary, the idea is to count how many words your own child hears each day, so that you can enjoy educating your child by using more words to talk to him/her. The world's first wearable word measurement. The world's first wearable vocabulary measuring device - this is the key concept behind Starling.
How to use Starling
Starling attaches a star-shaped wearable device to the baby. It is a batch shaped like a star. All you have to do is turn on the switch and talk to your baby.
How do you parse a word?
How Starling's voice analysis works by Versame, the operatorI am writing a summary of the It is an interesting approach.
We convert the words that you speak orally into speech signals. However, since speech signals are just sound waves, they do not have a format like words. It requires some ingenuity to perform the analysis. The shape of sound waves also differs depending on the size of the voice, and Starling has built a sound wave analysis engine into its smartphone application, which performs sound wave analysis in real time as long as it is connected to the wearable device via wifi. The know-how is packed in the ability to extract the spoken words as highly accurate words through sound wave analysis.
Starling Pack (device and charger) for $$199. The app is available for free on a buy-one-get-one-free basis. iOS9 or higher only; Android is in beta. 4.4 (Kitkat) or higher is supported.
User Reviews
Review on Launchpad on Amazon.comThe fact that all of them are 5-stars seems like a subtle stealth. The fact that all of them are 5-star rating seems to be a subtle stealth, but since the function is only to "count the number of words spoken to the baby," it may be because the product is a product that people like or dislike very much.
