Abstract: A communication device (100), for monitoring breathing, includes a microphone unit (110), a monitoring unit (120) and an output unit (130). The microphone unit receives an acoustic signal (105), which indicates the breath sounds (350) of a communication device user (102), from a surrounding area (112) of the microphone unit, and converts same into a digital input signal (114). The monitoring unit is configured to receive the digital input signal and to split the indicated breath sounds into individual breaths (124) based on an amplitude- and/or frequency-dependent pattern recognition (122) and to determine a respective breath duration (125) of a breath. The monitoring unit triggers a breath alarm state (126) of the communication device as a function of a consecutive sequence of breath durations. The output unit is configured to output an alarm output (132) indicating the breath alarm state after a triggering of the breath alarm state.