# Google’s AI Can Detect Illness from Your Cough! 🤧

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/google-s-ai-can-detect-illness-from-your-cough/290266>\
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**Tags:** ai, self-improvement\
**Created:** [August 30, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-s-ai-can-detect-illness-from-your-cough/290266 "2024-08-30T20:29:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-s-ai-can-detect-illness-from-your-cough/290266/1 "2024-08-30T20:29:12Z")

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**Summary:**

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1. **New AI Technology**  
Google is developing an AI that can detect diseases like tuberculosis by analyzing sounds such as coughing, sneezing, and sniffling through smartphone microphones.

2. **Collaboration and Training**  
In partnership with Salcit Technologies, Google’s HeAR model has been trained on 300 million audio samples, including 100 million cough sounds, to identify health issues.

3. **Potential Impact**  
This technology could transform diagnostics in areas with limited access to advanced medical tools, making it easier to detect respiratory ailments early.

**Read more at:** [Quartz](https://qz.com)