Google will introduce cough and snoring detection options in the Digital Wellbeing 'app'

"Google plans to implement the ‘Cough and snoring detection’ option on Android devices in the clock of these terminals and through the Digital Wellbeing application, which in Spain is available as digital wellbeing.

At the end of May, 9to5Google announced that the company was working on two new functions capable of detecting coughs and snoring, which were part of the team’s research. Google Health Studiesthe Google tool focused on the study of diseases.

This portal noted these capabilities in the code of the 2.0 update of the aforementioned application, in whose APK audio data was introduced for the development of algorithms for monitoring users’ sleep.

Now, this same medium has accessed the latest beta update of Digital Wellbeing, version 1.2.x, in which it has found a series of lines of code that suggest possible future features related to this area.

Specifically, it has accessed the name ‘Cough and snoring detection’, which will be part of the ‘Bedtime mode’, Available with the Clock app on Android OS devices.

This tool creates a reminder that notifies the user that they should go to bed and allows them to activate ‘Rest mode’, which silences the phone and turns the screen black and white during sleep, among other features..." Lire la suite