How To Produce Audio For A Health & Fitness AI Voice Coach With Api.audio

How To Produce Audio For A Health & Fitness AI Voice Coach With Api.audio

You're collecting a lot of user data on your workout device or fitness app. Why not deliver the information to your users in the form of an engaging AI audio coach? Here are 5 concepts on how to do it.

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The future of Fitness workout experiences is around the corner. In an earlier post we outlined our vision for the next generation of AI coaches. Are you curious what such an AI coach would sound like and where it can really enhance a workout? If so, you came to the right place.

All of the following audio examples use sound design templates we created for health & fitness applications. They'll set the tone for your personalized, user-data generated audio messages and can be found right on api.audio.

1 - Using data to add value to a workout

The new generation of workout app and fitness hardware creates a plethora of information about you: your heart rate and potentially your weight and calorie intake are obvious examples. It might also be able to capture how long you have been awake and when you exercised last time. Maybe it can even derive your patterns or routines accordingly.
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The workout device or app might also know about your speed and location, or whether you have just experienced a sudden drop in your exercise intensity. It can calculate how your current workout compares to your last workout - or compare it to that of other people at your age, gender and fitness levels. But how does that help you to look at a graph once a month? Couldn’t this data deliver valuable queues to improve your workout, while you are actually exercising? Here are some ideas how this could sound like:

Recommending performance based on heart rate:

“ …we still have 20 minutes to go. I would suggest dialing it back just a bit. Take a deep breath. And let’s pick it up again in 3, 2, 1.”

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Heatwave

Comment on last distance performance:

“You just completed your last kilometer in 5:20. That's 5 seconds faster than the last one and keeps you right on target.”

Voice: Shelly

Sound Design: Peakgroove

React to time and personal routine:

“This is an unusual time of day for you to exercise. I recommend you take it a bit slower today. You might also want to increase your cool down period to at least 10 minutes.”

Voice: Shelly

Sound Design: Gym Focus

2 - Being in the moment

Have you ever wondered why a live gym class is just so much more engaging than a recorded class? It is the same thing after all. This is for the same reason that radio stations do not repeat yesterday’s program, even though they might play the same songs: we just like to feel we are “in the moment” and up to date. An AI coach adds this dimension to any workout. Try one or more of these options:

Comment on time of day or location

“Good morning, it is a beautiful day in London today. Perfect for a run. ”

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Tropics

Comment on community working out together:

“Thanks for joining us this Saturday. We currently have 380 people on a run with over 1200 already having completed their workout. Ready to join them?”‍

Voice: Guy

Sound Design: Deepsea

Leave the user with a quote:‍

"Well done Mina! We are now entering a cool-down: Let me start you out with our motivational thought of the day...”

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Tropics

3 - Making your workout more personal

How do you call a coach you hire to help you with your workout? Yes! It’s a ’personal’ trainer. Those coaches know all the tricks to make you workout harder while enjoying it more. Their main approach is to make your workout more … “personal” and the new generation of AI coach can help you with this as well.

Address user by name:

“Well done, Leyla. That was your fastest lap so far. Great effort. ”

Voice: Connor

Sound Design: Peakgroove

Performance update:

“You asked me to update you about your heart rate. Your rate now is at 120. I will give you an update every 5 minutes and notify you right away if I measure anything unusual.”

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Gym Focus

Personal goal:

"There are 20 days to go till Amy’s wedding. You are well on track to look and feel fabulous that day.“

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Heatwave

4 - Working out together

Why do we go to fitness classes in the first place, rather than a workout at home? While some people appreciate the accountability, others feel more engaged by knowing others train alongside them. However, for most people it just makes for a better workout. An AI coach, can emulate these benefits.

Comment on the performance of the class:

“You are currently sharing this run with 1200 others. The average distance run this morning is 6 miles. Will you top that today?”

Voice: Liam

Sound Design: Loadingnextphase

Motivate the user by letting them know how their friends did:

"3 of your contacts have already worked out this morning: The fastest one was Tammy who ran a sensational personal best. Will you follow her lead?”

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Deepsea

5 - Gamifications and rewards

Finally, just think about how much more fun a workout can be if there is something to drive for: something to achieve or just some acknowledgment (some people go as far as to posting their workout stats on social media to just get a little bit of the latter) Here are a few ideas that come to mind.

A streak that keeps growing & applause/cheering:

“This is your 21st workout completed in a row. Keep going for the 30 day challenge. I hope I'll see you back tomorrow. ”

Voice: Connor

Sound Design: Heatwave

Work with your friends:

"Fred and John have completed their workouts this morning. Once you have completed yours, you will earn 50 stars for the team.”

Voice: Aria

Sound Design: Peakgroove

Conclusion

Audio is a fantastic medium to create engaging experiences like this and add an entirely new dimension to a workout. Creating dynamic audio like this can now easily be done with api.audio. Click the yellow button and use our recipe to get you started. Or contact us and tell us about your idea.

About:

Aflorithmic is a London/Barcelona-based technology company. Its api.audio platform enables fully automated, scalable audio production by using synthetic media, voice cloning, and audio mastering, to then deliver it on any device, such as websites, mobile apps, or smart speakers.

With this Audio-As-A-Service, anybody can create beautiful sounding audio, starting from a simple text to including music and complex audio engineering without any previous experience required.

The team consists of highly skilled specialists in machine learning, software development, voice synthesizing, AI research, audio engineering, and product development.