Researchers from the University of Washington have created a prototype system that can listen in and detect the characteristic gasping breaths of a person suffering a cardiac arrest. The team collected sounds of agonal breathing from real emergency calls and trained their tool to accurately recognise them using machine learning.
The system could soon be built into Google Home, Amazon’s Echo and other smart speakers and raise an alert for you. In the meantime, you can already ask Google Assistant to call 999 if necessary.
The system could soon be built into Google Home, Amazon’s Echo and other smart speakers and raise an alert for you. In the meantime, you can already ask Google Assistant to call 999 if necessary.
