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

PARIS, September 5 (Benin News / EP) –

The Google digital luxury.

At the end of May, 9to5Google announced that the company was working on two new features capable of detecting coughing and snoring, which were part of research conducted by the team at the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Security Studies. Google Health StudiesGoogle’s tool focused on studying diseases.

This portal noted these capabilities in the 2.0 update code for the aforementioned application, whose APK file provided audio data aimed at developing algorithms to monitor user sleep.

Today, that same port was able to access the latest beta update from Digital Wellbeing, version 1.2.x, where it found a series of lines of code indicating possible future features related to this area.

Specifically, it got the name “cough and snoring detection”, which would be part of the “bedtime mode”.And the Available with Clock app on Android OS devices.

This tool creates a reminder that informs the user to go to sleep and enables “sleep mode,” which silences the phone and turns the screen to black and white while sleeping, among other features.

To access other features, such as viewing recent sleep activity, users can You must use the Digital Wellbeing app. This service, along with the watch, accesses information about users’ daily use of apps and data from light motion sensors during scheduled breaks.

Now, Google has started implementing a new option in this section, which will track and snoring detection and coughing at rest, after manual activation by the user.

This is necessary in order for the device owner to change the permissions of the app and Give him access to the microphoneWhich will remain active during the preset schedule in the watch app.

In this regard, cough data and snoring information should be included along with existing information about application use, accompanied by a series of information about application use. Charts to illustrate sleep patterns.

In addition, this service will also provide the ability to report that no coughing or snoring is recorded during the specified bedtime on the smartphone watch.

At the moment, it is not known if this feature will be available for all devices that have the Digital Wellbeing app downloaded or if it will be for the Digital Wellbeing app only. Pixel phones.