One of the reasons for the great popularity of smartwatches and fitness trackers is that they allow you to quickly and easily monitor your health status, where you can track your heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and even monitor your sleep.
In that sense, Google, recently, is betting on integrating these functions directly into smartphones and in this regard, we have just learned that the American giant is working on a feature that will make your mobile phone capable of detecting your cough and snoring during sleep.
Website 9to5Google discovered in the APK of the latest version of Google Health Studies, Google’s health studies application, a series of references to a new function for studying sleep called “Sleep Audio Collection” which will collect audio while you sleep.
This seems to be the first element in the upcoming snore monitoring feature that could be part of a future sleep detection toolkit from Mountain View.
According to Google itself, their team “is actively working to provide an advanced set of detection capabilities and algorithms for Android devices with the aim of providing users with valuable insights during their sleep.”
The American company also wanted to clarify that the audio collected by this feature will remain on each user’s device, thus maintaining their privacy, although this information should be handled with caution, as Google has a dark history in data protection.
Although not officially confirmed yet, it is likely that this new cough and snore monitoring feature will be integrated into Google Fit and will first arrive exclusively on Google Pixel phones before reaching other phones.
