Who writes our guides

The guides on sleepeek.com are written by the team that develops Sleepeek, an iPhone app that records the sounds of the night so you can listen back to them in the morning (it isn’t out yet). They answer the questions people have about these sounds: snoring, sleep talking, coughing, and how to record them.

How a guide is written

1. We start from a question people really ask (what they search for on Google, what they write in app reviews) and read what already answers it, to add what’s missing.
2. An artificial intelligence writes the guide from this outline and the sources. It lets us answer more questions than we could on our own; that’s why the checking and review that follow are systematic.
3. The AI links each health fact (a number, a cause, a sign to watch for, the effect of a remedy) to its source and checks on the page that the information is there. Anything that can’t be sourced is removed.
4. A team member reviews the guide and decides whether to publish it. No guide is published without this review.

The guides are first written in French, for readers in France, then translated; the translation is reviewed in the same way as the guide.

Sources

For health: public bodies (Assurance Maladie, the French national health insurance; Haute Autorité de santé, the French national authority for health; Inserm, the French national institute of health and medical research; Santé publique France, the French public health agency; ANSM, the French medicines agency), learned societies (including the Société française de recherche et médecine du sommeil, the French sleep research and medicine society), the Institut national du sommeil et de la vigilance (the French national institute of sleep and vigilance), and studies published in peer-reviewed journals. For phone settings: Apple’s official documentation. For other apps: their App Store page.

Never used as a source: forums, blogs from brands that sell an anti-snoring product, blogs from other apps, Wikipedia, press articles that don’t cite their study, and text produced by an AI.

All sources are listed at the bottom of the guide with the date we consulted them, and most are linked directly in the text.

What the guides don’t replace

No one on the team is a health professional. The guides help you understand what you hear and prepare for an appointment; they don’t make a diagnosis. Every guide that touches on health has a “When to see a doctor” section, taken from a medical source. If a health professional reviews a guide, their name and profession are shown on that guide.

Why an app writes guides

Sleepeek is our app. We write these guides to answer questions about the sounds of the night, and to make it known. Each guide ends with a link to the app. In the text, we only mention it where it helps answer the question, never in the “When to see a doctor” section or next to a symptom.

Updates and errors

We review a guide when a reader reports an error or when what it says about the app is no longer true. When the substance changes, the update date appears under its title. Spotted an error? Write to contact@sleepeek.com: we check, and if it’s an error, we correct the guide.