While there is an acknowledged wealth of information available on nearly all aspects of parenting and child care, a key source of stress for new parents is the coping and response to infant crying. On average, a baby cries about three hours daily, causing frustration and worry to parents and caregivers. Until now, there were no practical technological solutions available to help guide parents along this journey.

The Cry Translator involves a revolutionary sound analysis technology that quickly identifies an infant’s cry, based on one of five emotional or physiological states: hunger, fatigue, annoyance, stress or boredom. These five cries are universal to all babies regardless of culture or language.

“The ultimate goal of the Cry Translator is not only to identify the reasons why the baby is crying, but to recommend guidelines for responding, which in turn will accelerate the learning curve for new parents”, say Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca, the creators of the Cry Translator.

The application interface is designed to be highly visual and extremely user-friendly. Babies’ cries are analyzed and identified within 10 seconds, with a 96% degree of accuracy, easing caregiver anxiety and prompting appropriate response to the baby’s needs. Once the cry has been identified, helpful tips to calm the infant are also provided.

“There is a tremendous amount of research supporting that babies who are responded to consistently and appropriately will cry less and develop stronger social and cognitive skills”, say Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca.

The application is the outcome of many years of research and development by Biloop Technologic, known for its innovations in the area of sound translation. The Cry Translator is now available in the iTunes AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch (with external microphone) in the US, Great Britain, France and Spain. Further expansion into additional global markets is planned.

Promotion price $29.99 $9,99 until 11/11/09

Foster City, California – Independent software developer Eknath Kadam today is proud to introduce Grammar Express: Tenses 1.0, his new grammar and course testing application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities, Grammar Express: Tenses is a complete course in mastering English grammatical tenses.

Perfect young and older adults alike, Grammar Express provides on-the-go students of all genre with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success. It features over a 100 pages of lessons explaining each grammar tense with clear easy-to-follow examples (Over a 1000 in all), allowing them to learn proper grammar rules and then test their understanding by taking any of the quizzes. Users can prepare by topic, and all questions are sorted by topic as well detailing what each topic will cover. The application also sports a beautiful bar chart so that users can track weak areas and give more focus on them.

Feature Highlights:
* Over 100 pages of grammar lessons and rules with over 1000 examples
* Over 1000 multiple-choice questions with explanation
* Choose number of questions you would like in each test
* Shows test results in HTML format
* E-mail the test results and track progress
* Handy “Progress Meter” module keeps track of performance in a particular topic or mock test
* Choose own timer settings
* Shake the iPhone/iPod to skip a question
* Cool sound effects (Can turn be off if desired)
* Choose a zoom factor for question graphics
* Special algorithm that randomizes questions every time a test is taken

Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback. Grammar Express includes a custom timer setting to assist in improving response times under exam constraints. This is particularly useful for students who find it necessary to gauge how well they will do prior to taking important school exams. At the end of each quiz, the user is presented with test summary and explanation for each test question, showing the time it took, the score, which questions were answered correctly and which questions were wrong. Mixed test questions are presented randomly from all topics, and users can easily email results to friends, or their tutors.

Methods:
* Future continuous tense
* Future forms of To Be
* Future forms of To Do
* Future forms of To Have
* Future perfect continuous tense
* Future perfect tense
* Future tense
* Past continuous tense
* Past forms of To Be
* Past forms of To Do
* Past forms of To Have
* Past perfect continuous tense
* Past perfect tense
* Past tense
* Present continuous tense
* Present forms of To Be
* Present forms of To Do
* Present forms of To Have
* Present perfect continuous tense
* Present perfect tense
* Present tense

“I felt the iPhone and iPod touch could both prove to be great devices for a higher educational purpose,” said independent software developer Eknath Kadam. Careful analysis proved that teenagers do download a lot of educational apps, and this is essentially how Grammar Express was born. The content is authored by Ashok Rajeshirke, who has been teaching English for last 30 years. The app comprises very innovative way of learning rules with descriptions and a lot of examples and then practicing with hundreds of test questions. I am sure this will prove to be a great tool for mastering English grammatical tenses. Many more apps are to follow which will cover other topics in English grammar.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Grammar Express: Tenses 1.0 is only $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. Review copies are available upon request.

Grammar Express: Tenses 1.0: http://eknathkadam.com/grammarexpress
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=335485915&mt=8
Screenshot: http://eknathkadam.com/grammarexpress/Grammar_express_For_iPhone_files/Grammarexpress.png
Application Icon: http://eknathkadam.com/grammarexpress/Grammar_express_For_iPhone_files/GETensesIcon.png

Travelers simply take a picture of the text to be translated with their iPhone; crop the picture to include only the text to be translated; and press the translate button. Within seconds the translated text appears on their iPhone in English. The first release of PicTranslator supports text translation from Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish into English. Pronunciation of the original text is available for French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.

With the pronunciation feature, PicTranslator can help travelers prepare for their travels by giving them an opportunity to hear and then repeat translated text, as well as translating text once they begin their worldly travels.

For more details on PicTranslator, please check out our

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtO_j42x618

Press Release - http://www.prweb.com/releases/PicTranslator/Fotozio/prweb3061374.htm

Website - http://www.pictranslator.com/

Codium Labs, LLC today released Babelshot 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Babelshot allows automatic real-time translation of printed text using the iPhone’s camera. Busy professionals and foreign travelers can use Babelshot to instantly translate items like restaurant menus, hotel booklets, product manuals, or snippets from books and newspapers. Babelshot incorporates innovative image processing algorithms coupled with state-of-the-art Tesseract Optical Character Recognition engine.

Redmond, WA – Codium Labs, LLC today released Babelshot, revolutionary application that allows automatic real-time translation of printed text using iPhone camera. Busy professionals and foreign travelers can use Babelshot to instantly translate items like restaurant menus, hotel booklets, product manuals, or snippets from books and newspapers.

All you have to do is select source and target languages, take a photo of the item, and select text portion of it that you want to translate. The translated text is then displayed next to the original photo of the item and can be saved for future reference. No typing on iPhone keyboard is needed.

Babelshot supports automatic translation between 32 world languages. Options are available for manual correction of recognition errors that may occur in complex or imperfect documents, as well as for full manual input.

Babelshot incorporates innovative image processing algorithms coupled with state-of-the-art Tesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, adapted and optimized for use on mobile devices. Unlike existing OCR-enabled applications for iPhone, Babelshot does not offload text recognition task to web server and performs text recognition on mobile device in real-time.

Supported Interface Languages:
* English

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS or previous generation iPhone with Clarifi case is required for fully automatic translation.
* First generation iPhone and iPhone 3G users without Clarifi case are limited to translation of large text items only, like headlines, signs, or advertisements.

Pricing and Availability:
Babelshot 1.0.0 is immediately available for only $1.99 (USD) on the iTunes App Store in the Productivity category.

Babelshot 1.0: http://babelshot.posterous.com/
Purchase and Download: http://linktoapp.com/babelshot
Video: http://vid.babelshot.com/
Media Assets: http://babelshot.posterous.com/private/jcmevoptvE

Mons, Belgium – Creaceed today released Vocalia 2.1 on the App Store featuring speech recognition in 3 new languages, i.e. Spanish, Italian and Dutch (in addition to English, French and German), and updated CeedVocal SDK for iPhone speech recognition. Thanks to Vocalia, people owning an iPhone v1, 3G or a 2nd generation iPod Touch have access to speech recognition features like on iPhone 3GS.

Vocalia is based on CeedVocal SDK, the speech recognition technology developed by Creaceed for the iPhone. Developers can purchase a commercial license for either a single application, or an unlimited number of applications. CeedVocal SDK is available in the same languages as Vocalia.

What’s new in Vocalia 2.1?
* New supported languages: Spanish, Italian and Dutch
* iTunes’s Playlists can be accessed by voice
* Vocalia now works while music is playing

Some of Vocalia’s features:
* Look for contacts in the address book, and automatically call them
* Look for artists from the iTunes library, and choose which song to play
* Look for bookmarks imported from a Mac/PC, and open them in Safari
* Choose the language for speech recognition: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian or Spanish
* Define additional voice shortcuts for contact names
* Split first and last names of contacts
* Set the navigation mode (voice, manual taps or timer)
* Shake the iPhone to try again
* Activate vibration to know when to start speaking
* Show help messages…

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and 2nd generation iPod Touch
* For the iPod Touch: a headset with external mic
* iPhone OS X 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Vocalia is available for $3.99 (USD) on the App Store. The update is free for current users. Promo codes and high resolution screenshots are available to the media upon request.

Creaceed: http://www.creaceed.com
Vocalia 2.1: http://www.creaceed.com/vocalia/
Vocalia FAQ: http://www.creaceed.com/vocalia/faq.html
Vocalia Voice Commands: http://www.creaceed.com/vocalia/voicecommands.html
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291683886&mt=8
CeedVocal SDK: http://www.creaceed.com/ceedvocalsdk/