Your Nighttime Snores and Coughs May Be Unique

From ShutEye to SleepScore, several smartphone apps are available if you're trying to better understand how snoring impacts your rest, allowing you to leave the microphone on overnight to record your raucous nasal grunts and rumbling throat reverberations. But while smartphone apps are helpful for tracking the presence of snores, their accuracy remains an issue when applied to real-world bedrooms with extraneous noises and multiple audible people. Preliminary research from the University of Southampton looks into whether your snores have a signature sound that could be used for identification. "How do you actually track snoring or coughing accurately?" asks Jagmohan Chauhan, an assistant professor at the university who worked on the research. Machine learning models, specifically deep neural networks, might provide assistance in verifying who is performing that snore-phonic symphony.