Since 2020, the Google Clock app has a sleep mode that allows us to monitor our resting activity, informing us of the time we spent using the phone when we had to sleep in bed, in addition to showing our upcoming events or helping us sleep with its relaxing sounds. Well, Google is going to go a step further with its sleep mode so that it looks more like the rest of the apps to monitor sleep.
When we talk about an application to monitor sleep, one of the main functions that comes to mind is the cough and snore detectionand that’s what Google seems to be adding soon to the sleep mode of your Clock application.
Cough and snore detection in Google Clock
Back in May, it became known that Google was already working to bring cough and snore monitoring to Android, but now the company has gone a step further and started implementing the feature in the app. google clock to be offered by digital wellbeing.
The source code of the latest beta version digital wellbeing (version 1.2.x) hides in its source code the “Cough and snore detection”informing in its text strings that it will be part of Google Clock’s “rest mode”.
See how much you cough or snore during your scheduled bedtime
Allow Digital Wellbeing to use this device’s microphone to detect coughs and snores during scheduled bedtime
A new card will appear in the rest mode of Google Clock that will allow us to activate cough and snore detection through Digital Wellbeing. For this it will be necessary allow the use of the microphone so that it can analyze the noises that occur while we sleep.
In this way, Google Clock would continue to monitor the activity of the apps we used in bed when we should be sleeping as well as the times when we coughed and snored.
See bedtime activity, screen time, cough and snore
What is unknown is if cough and snore detection will reach all mobiles or if it will be an exclusive feature of Pixels, or at least with temporary exclusivity. It is possible that Google will launch this function first in the Pixel 7 and then after a few months it will eventually reach the rest of the mobiles. Through | 9to5Google
