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PAGE PAGE PAGE 1 UNIT 4 单元主题训练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 eq \a\vs4\al(?2022·广州质检?)When my 8-month-old cries, I ask him if hes hungry, or wet or just needs a hug. “Babububuu，” he says. What I need is a baby cry translator. Thats just what a team of researchers say theyve developed. “Experienced nurses or pediatricians (儿科医师) can identify why baby is crying because they have experience，” says Lichuan Liu, a professor of electrical engineering at Northern Illinois University, who conducted the research. “We talked to them, and they mentioned that based on the crys sound therere some clues (线索)．” So Liu set out to identify the features of cries that can help mark them as expressions of pain or discomfort. These features include differences in pitch (音高) and frequency. The team then developed an algorithm (算法) based on automatic speech recognition to detect and identify these features. This “cry language recognition algorithm” was trained on recordings of baby cries taken from a hospital. It uses compressed sensing, a process that reconstructs a signal based on incomplete data. It can identify a babys cry against a background of, say, adult speech or loud television sounds. By classifying different cry features, like pitch, the algorithm can suggest whether the cry is due to sickness or pain, and identify the degree of urgency. The team had experienced pediatric care providers assess forty-eight baby cry recordings for probable cause of crying — hunger, tiredness, etc. They then compared these to the algorithms assessments. The algorithm agreed with the humans 70% of the time. Generally, so-called “uncommon cry signals” — signs of pain or sickness — are high-pitched and very loud compared to ordinary crying. Liu and her team continue to train the technology for greater accuracy. They also plan to add more features, like the ability to identify and classify movement and facial expressions. This could help give a more detailed reading of babys emotional (情感的) and physical state. They al