Apple study shows how AirPods might double as AI heart monitors

AI models analyzing audio from AirPods could determine a user's heart rate

Apple's latest research reveals how models made for speech recognition can determine your heart rate by processing phonocardiograms, which could be used in AirPods.

Apple study shows how AirPods might double as AI heart monitors

Apple Research has published a study shows how AI models can estimate heart rate from heart sound recordings.

AirPods Could Transform Into AI-Powered Heart Monitors, Apple Study Suggests - AppleMagazine

The study, published on May 29, 2025, explored whether six popular foundation models—designed for audio or speech processing—could estimate heart rates from phonocardiograms. These models weren’t trained specifically for health data, yet they delivered impressive results. According to the findings, most models matched or outperformed traditional methods that rely on handcrafted audio features, which are manually engineered to represent sound in …