Google wants to detect coughing and snoring from its app

The Google Clock app will bring a new dynamic in its sleep mode to monitor specific details of our hours of sleep.

Beyond setting our sleep schedule, the new feature could also serve to detect users’ coughs and snoring.

Google Clock will have a new function to monitor your hours of rest

One of the functions that we find in the Google Clock application is the Rest Mode. This allows us to establish a rest schedule so that a series of changes are applied to the mobile to help us disconnect.

For example, you will see that the mobile is silenced, a gray scale is used on the screen and it allows you to listen to relaxing music that will help us sleep. And on the other hand, it can also show us some details of our sleeping habits. To do this, we need to give them access to sensor data and app usage.

And now you want to go one step further with the detection of coughs and snoring during the set rest hour. An option that will be displayed through Digital Wellbeing. Of course, new permissions will have to be enabled so that the microphone can be active to analyze the sounds during our sleeping hours.

This will save you from having to configure other third-party apps to monitor these aspects of your sleep hours. One detail to keep in mind is that it is not yet known if this new Rest Mode function will be available for all mobiles or if it will only be designed for Google Pixels.

Or it may be that they are launched first on the Pixels and eventually end up being implemented on the rest of the mobiles. We will have to wait for Google to provide more news in the future about this new dynamic to detect coughing and snoring.