Customizable data in voice announcements

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The voice announcement feature is really cool, however I do lot of bike 
climbing, so I need a way to set which data the voice says.

For example, I only need to know elevation, and maybe elevation gain. So we 
just need a configuration screen with check-boxes to select which data we want 
to hear.

A further step would be to hear incremental differences between announcements. 
For example, if I set announcements each minute, I would like to here something 
like "you did 1.12 km (or miles) in the last minute, and gained 34 m (or feet) 
of elevation in the last minute". This also could be configured with 
check-boxes in an additional configuration screen.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by emanuele...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2010 at 5:29

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Nice idea. I'm not sure how to do it exactly, but I like it.

Original comment by rdama...@google.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 2:17

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• Added labels: Component-UI, OpSys-Android, Priority-Medium

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Issue 65 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by rdama...@google.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 2:18

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Issue 95 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by rdama...@google.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 2:18

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Issue 10 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by rdama...@google.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 2:19

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When you are doing customisable announcements can you add a checkbox for a 
listen to me sound like airport announcements please. I have the announcements 
set for 15 minutes and I usually miss half of it before I focus my attention on 
it. That Ding Dong Ding at airports gets you prepared for listening to what 
comes next.

Original comment by kenep...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2010 at 12:39

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Great idea, I saw it implemented in other similar apps. We should be able to 
choose what voice announcement will inform us about through selecting check 
boxes, as proposed by emanuele. What I can think of is: distance, time, 
altitude, heart rate, speed and pace.

Users should also be able to choose if announcements will be repeated after 
certain time or distance. Both options (distance and time) should have some 
preset values to choose from (ie. 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10km) and option to user itself 
define custom period.  

Original comment by marko.ni...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 10:07

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It would be also great to see music player integration with My Tracks, so if I 
play music during workout, My Tracks should pause it when giving voice 
announcements.

Original comment by marko.ni...@gmail.com on 12 Mar 2011 at 4:22

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Here is more complete list of what we could select to hear or not to hear 
during workout: distance, time, current speed, average speed, pace, average 
pace, current pace, calories, heart rate, heart rate zone, cadence, breathing 
rate, skin temperature, altitude, altitude gain.

It would be also great to have under options to choose if you want to hear each 
time you break your previous max speed, max heart rate and when you change 
heart rate zone interval (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate). These 
announcements should not depend on defined voice announcement interval (issue 
#393).

It would be also useful to be able to define voice announcements volume, and 
option to mute volume during voice announcement (as I mentioned in previous 
comment).

All these settings could go under "Voice Feedback" or something like that.

Original comment by marko.ni...@gmail.com on 12 Mar 2011 at 5:36

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hi, this has been another feature i want to implement in my own app. And this 
is how i designed it:

in the options we had a list when we could add "events" to trigger, a button to 
add, and then in-list, the events could be deleted/modified

+Add Event 
==========
HeartRate>160 (Edit / Delete) Visual[] TTS[]
Paused>1min (Edit / Delete) Visual[] TTS[]
GPS Signal Lost (Edit / Delete) Visual[] TTS[]
Bluetooth Signal Lost (Edit / Delete) Visual[] TTS[]

... 
etc..

So, we had a list of possible events, and 2 types of signals: visuals (a short 
message in screen) and sound (TTS with voice), so you mark whatever you want, 
take in account that this is extremely flexible, so in the future we could add 
support to put this information with push messages EVERYWHERE (triggering URLS, 
etc...) But starting with only visual and sound will be ideal.

Events to trigger (i'll add the ones from marko):

GPS Signal Lost
GPS Signal Fixed
Bluetooth Signal Lost
Bluetooth Signal Paired
Calories consumed X
Distance X
Speed X
AVG Speed X
Pace X
AVG Pace X
HeartRate X
Entering / Exiting HeartRate Zone X (Heartrate zones could be defined in 
settings, minium 5 zones definable)
Etc...

Sorry again for being so verbose :D

Original comment by ble...@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2011 at 2:40

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I would like the option in my tracks to simply turn off all voice 
prompts/alerts from my tracks so I can just listen to my music and not be 
interrupted by the voice prompts. I only use the data to review after my ride. 
This could be an easy toggle.

Original comment by Abeish...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2011 at 6:53

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please provide option to disable voice info. while training.

Original comment by rhearl...@googlemail.com on 8 Jun 2011 at 8:26

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Already there.  Just set interval to off.

Original comment by sandordo...@google.com on 8 Jun 2011 at 8:31

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Excellent suggestions above.  My own suggestion is more modest.  

I'd like the voice system to report Average speed/pace and Total Time, as 
opposed to Average Moving speed/pace and Moving Time. If I am out on a run it 
is my overall performance I need to know, and this would be very useful.

Well done all for a great app.

Original comment by jellsm...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2011 at 9:45

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(just removing OpSys-Android label, all issues are in Android anyway)

Original comment by rdama...@google.com on 26 Jul 2011 at 1:00

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I'd like to hear announcements at every 1/4 mile. It keeps me motivated. The 
Nike+ app does this, but Nike+ also tracks me when I'm not running the app and 
takes up like 30MB of RAM hours after its closed. Please add customizable 
announcement intervals to MyTracks so I don't have to use that buggy app.

Original comment by jaympo...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2012 at 11:46

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I need to have specific voice announcement at specific interval, to set my 
training without look at phone every second. Is ti possible?

Original comment by massimil...@iviaggidellemeraviglie.com on 7 Aug 2012 at 3:54

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Original comment by jshih@google.com on 28 Feb 2013 at 12:36

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Issue 898 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 14 Oct 2014 at 5:47

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I vote for customizeable voice notifications.  In particular heart rate for me 
so I can note of it without looking at my phone. 

Original comment by electric...@gmail.com on 5 May 2015 at 5:28