Every breath you take, Google could soon be watching you (snore and cough from your phone)
Samsung phones can track your sleeping habits and even let you know if you’re snoring, and according to a recent teardown, Google might be working on a similar feature for Android to track time spent snoring and coughing at night, though it’s not clear where it might end up.
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Sleep Sensing data gathered by the Nest Hub, including snoring and coughing details.
Google isn’t starting from scratch with this either. The Nest Hub’sSleep Sensing featurecan monitor if you are snoring or coughing — for free now, but aspart of a paid subscription next year. Fitbit, which is owned by Google, also offers a feature calledSnore & Noise Detect, which uses on-device microphones (and requires a paid subscription) to tell you how much of the time you spend asleep snoring. TheSamsung Health appbundled with Samsung phones can monitor your snoring at night without any subscription. And the popularSleep as Android appcan’t just track your snoring or other loud nighttime habits with a one-time purchase or subscription; it can even kick inanti-snore countermeasures. Google better be planning to bring some particularly unique (and free) functionality if the feature comes to Android to make a dent against such stiff competition.
On that note, it’s not entirely clear based on the context of the teardownwherethe feature might end up being used. Another string from the teardown clarifies that the featurewillcome to some Android device in some form. Google might be planning to make this a Pixel-specific feature, or it could be bound for an app like Google Fit for general Android device use,orit could even be destined for some other Android-powered product.
Esper.io’s Mishaal Rahman believes the feature could use theAmbient Context APIadded in Android 13, which might mean the Digital Wellbeing app could be the place the data surfaces.
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