The only tool I really care about is WKO, paid $127 for that 4 years ago. Strava I pay for because the leaderboards are fun, we (club members) talk shit and post rides, and (with Sauce plug-in) its the easiest way to identify timestamps of single efforts of interest. Empirical Cycling I toss money into tip jar for the excellent content. Same for fitfileviewer.com because I don’t want to always write some code.
Seriously you will find some users. How many is anyone’s guess.
If it’s fully offline then I might be a user but if it relies on connectivity then it’s not much better than Siri/Google and voice over native capabilities of accessibility options + any head unit app.
I’d struggle with audio when full gas or in high traffic / noise areas so for me this use case would be limited to when I don’t want to look at the head unit or expect low connectivity.
So interval sessions mostly
Solid points, the idea is making it offline-first type functionality. I’m working on editing out traffic/noise in realtime, using the latest AI, it’s not easy, but if I can get it to work well enough it would be pretty awesome.
That bit some Garmin models can do already.
Accurate, but Garmin doesn’t support voiced turn by turn directions.
This sounds awesome. Do you have an apk we can try now?
Not yet, most of the functions for data retrieval are dummy functions and it can’t yet connect to BLE sensors, so, very WIP, just gauging interest at this point.
Yea it does via the paired phone.
wasn’t aware of that, I pair my phone with my Garmin and haven’t seen that, regardless, mine will be better 
I’m in my 70’s and not computer savvy like so many in this discussion. My naive thoughts are that what you propose would be very helpful for riders such as myself and that the platform you propose will certainly grow as new ideas are brought up. I’m interested!
Fantastic, thanks for the validation.
Curious - does Apple Maps then give you turn-by-turn on your watch too?
Perhaps takes this thread in a different direction, but I would like my WATCH to replace the head unit. Does Apple Maps let you import a GPX file that is a mishmash of roads and bike paths? Apple seems to do this automatically when I drive (watch+audio interrupt), but doesn’t seem to support an imported bike route.
FWIW - I think the standard around my area is generally no headphones on a group ride, one ear piece on a solo training ride.
Yes
Hi Eric
As part of my cycling, I pilot Tandems in club for the blind and partially sighted in Luxembourg. Most of or co-pilots are technically savey and I’m sure this would be of interest. All our club runs are planned in advance and gpx files are shared prior so that tandems and our accompanying riders are all clear on the routes. It would certainly make the rides more engaging for the co-pilots. Clearly a special use case but we’d love it.
Maybe, maybe not.
That sounds like a fantastic use case, definitely helping me lean toward the “make a production version”!
I think its a really neat idea with lots of spin off ideas. Examples.
Endless possibilities…
Well, if you do decide to move forward. We would be very happy to help Alpha/ Beta test…
Those are my thoughts as well, using a large language model to map sentences to intents and building out hundreds, if not thousands of functions to handle those intents (those are really easy functions) is the key.
Also, I just got AI wind/noise reduction working, in realtime, on the phone! So, another win!
Sounds great! I’d be curious what specific functionality you’d be interested in at that time.