Google Works on two new features that recognize cough and snoring Within its Google Health Studies app to provide users with data on their sleep quality. This is an option that can reach Android devices.

Physical activity platform GoogleFit Expanded its features in March 2021 by recording the heart rate and respiration rate of consumers with the camera of their mobile devices.

The company remains committed to introducing new features in healthcare devices and, in this case, will focus on delivering tools so that users can have more information about sleep quality as the portal specializes. 9to5 Google.

Update to 2.0 Application Google Health Studies He came last week with the help of new research on the effects of cell phones on mental health. As part of this review, the media notes that several code snippets precede the study of audio collection during sleep, which is only available to Google employees.

To access these lines of code, Media explains that it analyzed files in version 2.0 of the app that Google uploaded to its Play Store. These files are called Android Application Package (APK) and they anticipate possible new features that may or may not enter the ecosystem.

Google explains that its “Health Detection Team” is actively working to bring an advanced set of recognition capabilities, and Algorithms for Android devices that aim to offer users important information about their sleep“, – it is said according to the above-mentioned media.

Audio data collection is intended to enhance artificial intelligence systems so that they can process information. In short, these algorithms will be used to monitor users’s sleep to detect coughs and sneezes at night, while maintaining the device owner’s privacy.

Publisher esper.io And former Editor-in-Chief XDA DevelopersMishaal Rahman mentioned on his Twitter social network that these new features can take advantage of the Android 13 Ambient Context application programming interface (API).

Rahman notes that Google’s Digital Wellbeing app also offers access to environmental events, so it is likely to offer users cough and sneeze data. Everything indicates that work is underway in this regard.

Unsurprisingly, snoring and coughing will be a wider feature of Android or Pixel exclusive. At least, it may come out on those phones for the first time. It is also unknown in which app this volume will be available, however the places where their integration is most likely are Google Fit and Clock.

We must remember that in 2020 Google introduced the tool before sleep (Bed Time) In Google Clock, which works with Digital Wellbeing to estimate time spent in bed. This means giving the app app access to motion and light detection. Fitbit, meanwhile, offers a snooping feature on the Sense and Versa 3, and a similar feature on the second-generation Nest Hub.

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