It recognises your voice and directs you on bike routes to your spoken destination.Say your destination (it is multi-lingual and uses the Google service).Most of you didn’t read it because it didn’t have the word ‘Garmin’ in the product name -), nevertheless, the Rider 750 does have a good dose of voice navigation and it works quite well. A few of you read my review earlier this week on the Bryton Rider 750. That said, let’s look at more complex examples like navigating to a destination. I suspect there is a case of using tech for tech’s sake here and that the earbud doesn’t really need voice automation for fitness, especially when there are perfectly good alternatives for simple tasks like starting a workout. If instead, you view this innovation as the start of a new mini-wave of ‘sports’ tech then it might end up somewhere exciting or, at least, vaguely interesting. The PR info does leave me scratching my head a little. Perhaps you can sense a degree of antipathy toward voice tech coming from me? Well, I’m perhaps not as cynical as you might think about this. Garmin’s alternative and somewhat radical solution is to “press a button” whereas Apple just starts recording when it detects a sport-like movement. The Echo Earbuds will also accept other voice commands during your workout and I am not entirely clear (or interested) on what those commands precisely are. Whilst Google is very close to securing the multi-billion dollar acquisition of Fitbit and whilst Apple is teetering on the edge of launching its Fitness+ service, Amazon has joined the fray and is about to add an “ Alexa, start my run” command to its Echo Buds earbuds. More Info: Garmin 955 First Images & Shop Listing Details LTE on the 955 / 945 could pave the way for VOICE CONTROL

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