Abvio has published updates to Runmeter, Cyclemeter and Walkmeter, his trio of iPhone apps fitness based on GPS for tracking exercise performance. All three applications are built the same Foundation, each optimized for running, cycling and walking, respectively. Applications allow users to track their workouts these data such as time, location, distance, altitude, and speed of recording and then view their results on maps and charts organized by tracks and activities with a summary of different periods. Users can also automatically publish status updates to Twitter and Facebook training and hear responses of their online friends during their workout using the built-in text-to-speech engine. Version 5.0 adds integration with major social community dailymile.com allowing users to automatically synchronize and share their workouts in real-time with dailymile community and hear messages of encouragement from friends of dailymile to training sessions. The new version also introduces a virtual competition feature that allows users to import a route to add a competitor virtual to run, cycle or walk against. Routes can be imported drives previously recorded, friends workouts, fitness social sites or any other source of data from GPX compatible.
Other new features in the latest update includes a text-to-speech engine increased with a new integrated voice and enhanced. Another 16 voice options, and dialects for text-to-speech functionality are also available via-app purchase, including male and female voices in America, English British, German, French and Canadian French. The update includes also the 25 configurable voice announcements of distance, time, speed and improved voice quality and more. Additional improvements include a configurable display stopwatch with up to 40 different statistics, the ability to enter notes before and during a workout, improvements to the flexibility of the speed and pace displays, support for tracking the descent burn grade and energy in kilojoules and more. Three Runmeter, Cyclemeter and Walkmeter applications are sold separately in the App store for $5 each. Text-to-speech voice is available via-app purchase for $1 per vote.
