Are there Voice Cues for Coach on Ionic?

[speedbyte]

Has anyone been able to listen to voice guidance during workout. For example, the description of the next exercise and how many seconds left etc.

I tried the inbuilt Treasure Chest, but everytime I need to look at the watch for the description and it would be good to know the time left until the next exercise.

Ofcourse, I am playing music, but I was assuming important voice cues, such as start next exercise etc to be spoken . Is that possible at the moment, or the Coach app has no voice guidance?

Moderator Edit: Clarified Subject.

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @speedbyte, have a warm welcome to the Fitbit Community, it's great to have you on board. 

I appreciate your participation in the Forums and for sharing your experience with us. Please note that the Ionic does not have a speaker or way to produce sounds, which means voice cues are not available for Coach on the Ionic, which is why it relies on vibrations to let you know when an exercise starts and ends. If you'd like to have voice cues, at the moment the only way is to use the Fitbit Coach app from your phone. 

I hope this resolves your inquiry, if there's anything else we can do for you, please feel free to reply. 

[speedbyte]

Hi Marco,

Ionic does not have speakers, but they do have audio streaming via bluetooth to external bluetooth speakers or bluetooth headphones.

Hence I find your argument to not able to play voice cues, because there is no in built speaker a little vague.

Is it possible to download any free version of the training video, so that I can convert it into mp3 and then transfer it to the watch? This could be a workaround.

But , ofcourse it would be optimum to have voice cues from the training videos and not only vibrations and fail to understand why cant the voice cues directed to the connected bluetooth speakers or headphones?

[MarcoGFitbit]

Hello @speedbyte, I hope you're doing well, thanks for taking the time to reply. 

I appreciate you have come back and provided your feedback about this situation. Please note that the Coach app in Ionic/Versa does not have the capability to link with wireless headphones to provide Voice Cues. I understand how important this is for you, our team is always looking to improve the Fitbit experience and I would like to encourage you to submit your insight as a suggested idea, where members of the Community can comment and vote for it so it can be implemented in the future.

Feel free to share your suggestion with your friends and family to add more votes and comments, this is the best way to make your voice heard and get the attention from our development team.

I hope this can be helpful, if there's anything else I can do for you, please feel free to reply.

[SunsetRunner]

I found good workaround..... went on UTube to find the workout that suits me....downloaded the video and learnt the routine................. converted the video file to an mp3 audio file and uploaded that to my ionic.  Now I just play the mp3 file and do the exercises to the voice.  If I do it at home I can just watch and listen to the original video on my tablet. Some routine vids have music or you can mix the voice file with a music file of your own. Software to do these actions are available online.  Hope this helps.

[SilviaFitbit]

It's great to see you on the Community @SunsetRunner. Thank you for the advice that you've shared. If you would like to post any idea on the Feature Suggestion board that would be great, because those are reviewed by our team and the status changes based on Fitbit plan's. 

Fitbit is always taking your feedback into consideration and improving the services that are being provided. 

I'll be around if you need further assistance.