Is it possible to have the notes as the spoken word during workouts?

[stevoknott]

Hi, when doing the workout in TR I find reading the tips on the training a distraction. Is it possible to switch then on as an audio spoken word description?

[mcneese.chad]

I need to see if there is an official support doc (that I can’t find via search right now at least), but there is a way to do it.

Here is a post mentioning it, and I hope @IvyAudrain can fill in the blanks.

The New TrainerRoad Android App is LIVE!

Hey, Liam! Pedal to Extend can be toggled on and off at will by any non-VoiceOver athlete but is turned on always for athletes using VoiceOver, even if the Pedal to Extend setting is toggled to ‘off’. VoiceOver athletes are warned before the cooldown is extended, but 30 seconds before the end you will have the ‘pedal to extend cooldown’ option appear. You can cancel it if you stop pedaling less than a minute after extending the workout, or keep pedaling to extend!

Would Audible Narration be a good idea? I think so

VoiceOver (iOS) or TalkBack (Android) are both services that are built directly into the phones themselves. As long as VoiceOver is enabled on your phone (instructions here), you won’t have to do anything else to activate any of the Accessibility features inside of TrainerRoad. As soon as VoiceOver or TalkBack is enabled, the app should automatically start using any Accessibility features we’ve built. You don’t need to toggle anything in our app, just make sure that the voice-over service is o…

[IvyAudrain]

@stevoknott If Chad’s aforementioned advice doesn’t help, please let us know as I’m not 100% clear what you’re asking for. Thanks!

[stevoknott]

It sounds like an option. However I’m using a PC and the voice over I’m looking for is to cover the written instructions/advise given as I’m participating in the workout.

[adski]

@stevoknott I understand VoiceOver to be the Apple solution, which TR currently supports on mobile. Suggest trying a mobile device? I’m not a person with disability, but turn on the VoiceOver to hear the captions, which I often miss if distracted.

[SnoqualmieMaybe]

Same, I use a PC to run TR and regularly miss the instruction text. Would much prefer voice instructions.

[brianebolton]

Yeah I typically run TR on a PC and tried learning to use the built-in Narrator to read the comments aloud, but I couldn’t get the Narrator program to successfully read more than one instruction at a time. Plus it’s just really inconvenient to have to switch into an accessibility mode which is kind of a world unto itself of different settings and methods for navigating everything on screen. So far that’s my challenge with using Talkback on Android as well.

[Saddlesaur]

Personally, all I want is the notes to last longer. My suggestion is that they shrink down after their normal duration but stay on the screen. I often miss them as I’m watching other content, staring at my stem, etc… This has been requested many times in the past.

[Trix8806]

Is there a way to make them disappear? I did Antelope today and my gawd they were terrible. Not that the instructions were bad, but it was like someone put the notes in Chat GPT with instructions to “make this 3x longer with fill in words.”

Sometimes what flashes up in 3 separate popups could easily be cut in half with a single pop up to get the exact same message across. It was incredibly annoying. It’s cute when a 4 year old stops between every 3 words, but not when you’re receiving instructions during a hard interval workout in the same manner

The perfect sentence is not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing left to take away…

[themikefish]

@Trix8806

Is there a way to make them disappear?

I think this is where they can be toggled off, or set to a different size. In Settings.

[lokerola]

And it has to be done via the app. Doesn’t look like the the text instruction options are available via the web site.