Sleep Audio Collection: is the study launched by Google from which the functionality for detect snoring and coughing that Google is testing with the help of employees and that, if it were to give the expected results, it would end up being part of the functionality of Android or at least of the Pixel. The colleagues of 9to5google.com after finding some pretty clear indications in the Google Health Studies the app that allows users – not in Italy – to contribute to health research.
The 2.0 version of Health Studies is recently available and has been sifted through in the usual way APK Insight. Here is the description of the test reported by colleagues in which Google calls its employees together with an Android smartphone to contribute to the experimentation:
You must be a full-time Googler with an Android phone to participate in this study. It is necessary for the study that no more than one adult sleeps in the same room and that this does not work for a competing company.
Beyond the understandable fear that a employee of a rival company can alter the testsGoogle explains that its “health tracking team is working to bring an advanced suite of detection capabilities and algorithms to Android devices, with the aim of providing users with an overview of their sleep.”. The test is preparatory to the objective because it will provide “the data necessary to validate, optimize and develop such algorithms”.
EXCLUSIVE OF PIXELS?
Google promises already during the experimental phase that the analysis of the snoring and cough monitoring recordings will be carried out in localon the device, so that ensure privacy. Many doubts, at present. For example, we need to understand if once the tests are finished, the novelty will be exclusive to the Pixels or will end up being a functional feature of Android, perhaps later. a timed exclusive on the Pixels. And again in which app it will be implemented, if on Google Fit or on Clock, perhaps in the Alarms section.
What is certain is that Google continues to be committed to broad-spectrum health monitoring. Last year, for example, on Google Fit came the possibility of use cameras of the smartphone, or rather of the Pixel, for monitor heart rate and breathing. The monitoring of snoring and cough could follow the same parable and debut on the Pixel maybe already in the autumn, even if those who own any other Android smartphone would not be happy, being still waiting to be able to monitor heart and breath through the cameras.
