healthcare.digital June 8, 2025
AirPods to monitor your heart
Recent developments suggest Apple may be on the verge of revolutionising health technology by integrating AI powered heart monitoring into AirPods, potentially transforming them into non-invasive health tools. A study from Apple Research, published in late May 2025, explored using AI models, originally designed for speech recognition, to estimate heart rates from heart sound recordings, or phonocardiograms, captured via AirPods’ existing microphones.
This research tested six foundation models, including HuBERT and an internally developed Contrastive Language-Audio Pre training (CLAP) model, finding they could accurately estimate heart rates from 20 hours of heart sound data, rivalling traditional methods.
The concept leverages AirPods’ in-ear placement and high-quality microphones, already used...
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