Audio Prompts During Structured Workout

On my old 945 I would get an audio prompt along with the vibration on the watch with each step when doing a structured run workout. It was something spoken like "Go Hard" or "Recover" (I can't remember the exact words) with each new transition. On my 955 I get a voice prompt if my heart rate is out of range for the particular step that I am on and I also get a vibration on the watch when going from a sprint to a recovery period, for example, but I can't seem to find a way to get the voice through my headphones. I get the vibration on the 955, just not the voice telling me it's time to run hard or recover along with the vibration like I used to be able to on my 945. I have all audio prompts enabled in the settings. Any ideas?

0 nowster 1 month ago

Another one which has disappeared is lap numbering (relayed through the Android App).

I haven't paired my headphones with the phone since the excessive volume of the prompt beeps was strongly correlated with my Aeropex headphones going tinkly (thankfully just in warranty, so a no quibbles replacement).

0 7313810 1 month ago

I am experiencing similar. I recently upgraded from the 945 to the 965. I have autolap set to 1mile and lap alerts turned on. I would expect to hear "Lap X" followed by the time elapsed for the lap. However, on the 965 this alert only works if the lap is a mile or longer. For example, if i have a workout of 2 miles easy, 8x400m with 400m recovery, and 2mile easy I get the expected alert during only the warmup and cooldown. Interestingly, the alerts during the cooldown continue with the expected lap number. I will get lap notifications for laps 1, 2, 19, and 20.

I reached out to Garmin support and was told this is expected. I found that hard to believe as this has always worked on my forerunner 235 and 945 since 2019. I then tried to fund documentation of this "change" but came up empty. Would be nice to get confirmation.

Either way, this is a step backwards in functionality and makes no sense.

0 nowster 1 month ago in reply to 7313810

7313810 said:
I reached out to Garmin support and was told this is expected. I found that hard to believe as this has always worked on my forerunner 235 and 945 since 2019.

Not only that, but the 955 used to do it too! I remember moaning a few years ago that it would read out "Lap one five five four five" which made it difficult to work out what was the lap number and what was the lap time. That was eventually fixed, and it would read "Lap fifteen five forty-five".