Voice cues when starting workout in Blaze

[CarrieDH]

Is there a way to get voice cues to play from the app when starting a workout from the Blaze?

[SunsetRunner]

Fitstar is visual only, the Blaze doesn't has a speaker for voice guidance as well during the exercise.

[CarrieDH]

I don't use Fitstar. I just use the exercise function that let's me start a run or walk or whatever from the tracker. I just don't know if I'm missing somewhere how to get the tracker to give voice cues - filtered thru the app on my iPhone - when starting the walk/run from there instead of from the app. Meaning, the app will give voice cues if I start the exercise tracking from there. Since you did point out the tracker itself doesn't have a speaker, I guess it's not possible for it to send audio back to my phone via BT?  

[embeefit]

I am also wondering this! The voice cue function seems to be only available through Mobile Run but you can't control Mobile Run with the Blaze! That is unfortunate. I thought the Blaze Woukd send the information to the phone and the app would trigger the voice cues. Seems that the Blaze needs to be tied into the Mobile Run app to do this. 😕

[SunsetRunner]

Went for my first run today with the new Blaze and the tracker would not sync through the tracker interface alone.  Consitently says phone not found.  I had to remove my phone from the arm band and open the app and sync the tracker to get it to sync up with the GPS.  Not at all what I expected from the Blaze.  Also the voice cues never did come through to my headset.  This worked fine with the Charge when using the app on the phone to start the run.  Today I made sure everything was on, cues, Blaze connected to phone GPS(after the debacle above), etc.  I started the run via Exercise---->Run---->Then hit the play button.  Never once did I hear the cues??  And the music function is worthless as well.  May be returning the Blaze rather quickly.

Every thing is updated and charged to full, all day sync and pretty much every option turned on, running Android on a Samsung S6

Thanks

[Rich_Laue]

The voice cues are activated by the app, your Blaze doesnt have anyway to do voice cues.

As for the GPS is location set to high in the phone.

[SunsetRunner]

Turning on enable notifications seems to have helped with the snyc to GPS.

So you are saying that even though it syncs to the phone GPS and maps my run that it will not give the voice cues unless I start to log the run via the app? This should be fixed. I like to get the phone in my arm band inside and as soon as I am out the door take off. Don't really want to be fumbling around with the phone in the hot FL sun.

[SunsetRunner]

This says solved, but nothing was solved.  Im confused

[Rich_Laue]

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@SunsetRunner wrote:

This says solved, but nothing was solved.  Im confused

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I'm not site what ypu are referring to when typy say this thread is unsolved. 

The title is on voice cues, of which the Blaze, as stated above, does not have. 

The Blaze does have cues displayedon the screen, that are signaled by a vibration.

[JohnLT]

I've set up and synced the watch to the phone, it records my run, so I know it's working, but it won't give me voice cues.

I push exercise-run-start, but the voice cues never play. That the number one thing I bought this thing for. It's not better than a free app on my phone if it doesn't do basic running needs.

The sales girl at Best Buy said it would start my music, (which it doesn't, give me voice cues, which it does not, and post my updates to Facebook, which it does not.) I'm not finding this $199. Purchase funny.

[oBoy]

Hey John!

I'm not quite sure, but the I believe that the voice cues are from the FitBit app. If you start a workout from the app, I believe that it gives you voice cues. This is a feature for all the FitBit products, I understand. 

As far as the music, FitBit doesn't advertise that you can start music from the Blaze, but if you start music from your phone and connect your Blaze, you can play/pause and control the volume from the Blaze. 

Hope it helps!

[Rich_Laue]

@JohnLT the Blaze was never advertised as having voice cues, it does have and is advertise as having the summery displayed on the watch, with a vibration to notafy

I've combined a few recent threads on voice cues,  so that the info is in one place

[JohnLT]

Well this thing is getting returned, I was misled by the store, and there's many implications here it does voice cues, (and a couple emails from customer care telling me how to set it up to recurve voice cues) so what I have is a fraudulent product, it's a $200. heart rate monitor attached to an app.

I'll find out today about Best Buys return policy.

[Smithy4230]

Not sure if I'm missing something but connected to phones GPS and when running expect the audio as playing music via blaze to update with time and distance.
It's not.
So I'm running alongside blaze the runkeeper app to hear progress.
Please any experts out there?
Thanks

[Rich_Laue]

@Smithy4230 I've moved your post to the main thread.  Please see above, basically the Blaze does the tracking, not the App.

[Smithy4230]

Thanks. New today to this page group. I'm not impressed with the blaze to date. I'll keep on watching.

[Rich_Laue]

 Best Buy like most stores today have a very liberal return policy. You might want to point out to the salesman that mis-represented the Blaze this page, where it clearly states:

Workout Summaries

See detailed workout summaries on your wrist

I'm not sure what kind of training their salepeople get, but know that Target gives their employees almost none. Target personal do have an advantage in that Target recently bought Fitbits for all of their employees.

To call something fraudulent because as you say,"Mislead by a store personal that was  misinformed or never properly instructed"....

[solodare]

I think what is being asked is this. When I start a walk from the blaze, it uses the phones GPS and app to log the walk but the PHONE does not give voice cues as it would if you started the walk from the app. Im pretty sure everyone knows the Blaze has no speaker.   

[MikeF]

When you start a walk from the Blaze it uses the phone GPS but it's the Blaze that logs the walk, not the app. Thus the app doesn't have the data available to it to provide voice cues.

Of course, software can be changed etc but this is the way things operate at the moment.

[Jelloguil]

If you want go vote for the feature https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Requests/Run-audio-cues-on-Blaze/idi-p/1280774