Chennai, June 20 -- Highlights :

* Smart speakers like Alexa or Google Home can remotely monitor the breathing of a sleeping person and correctly identifies agonal breathing of cardiac arrest and immediately alerts family or //call emergency services for help

* The tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable smart speakers to detect cardiac arrest by using real agonal breathing sounds recorded from 911 calls. It correctly detects agonal breathing 97% of the time from a distance of up to 20 feet away

* Cardiac arrests often occur inside a person's home when there is no help available. This tool could potentially help reach such patients in time so that they can be treated and saved before it is too late

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