Help & support

AudioRun speaks two kinds of updates during a run. Split Times is its own callout at every whole kilometer or mile. Everything else on the What to Announce list goes into the interval announcement — one spoken sentence, built from the items you switch on, in the order you arrange them.

The interval announcement fires on the schedule you pick further down the same screen: every so-many kilometers (Distance Interval), every so-many minutes (Time Interval), or both. The stretch of running between two announcements is what the app calls an interval — it's about announcements, not interval training.

Split Times

A separate callout the moment you complete each whole kilometer (or mile): "Kilometer 3: 5 minutes 28 seconds" — the time that kilometer took, on its own. The classic race stat. Needs GPS, so it stays silent on indoor runs.

Distance

Total distance covered so far in this run.

Elapsed Time

Total running time so far in this run.

Pace

Your average pace over the whole run — everything since you started, averaged together. Stable, but slow to react when you speed up or slow down.

Heart Rate

Your heart rate right now. Only spoken when a heart-rate monitor is connected.

Last Interval Time

How long the last interval took — the time since the previous announcement.

Last Interval Distance

How far you ran during the last interval. Most useful with a time interval: "how far did I get in the last 5 minutes?"

Last Interval Pace

Your pace over just the last interval — in effect, how fast you're running right now. Unlike Pace, it reacts immediately when your speed changes. If you steer your effort by one number, this is it.

Interval Count

Which interval you just finished: "interval 4". A simple counter, so you know how many announcements have passed without doing math.

Pace, Last Interval Pace or Split Times?

They're easy to mix up. Pace is the average since the start of the run. Last Interval Pace covers only the most recent stretch. Split Times is the time for each whole kilometer or mile, spoken as its own callout as you cross the mark. Run at a steady speed and all three tell the same story — the differences show up the moment your speed changes.

Good to know

• Items with nothing to say are skipped, not spoken as zero — no monitor means no heart-rate clause, and indoor runs skip the distance items.
• Indoor runs announce by time. If you only set a distance interval, indoor runs fall back to an update every 5 minutes.
• The items are spoken top to bottom — drag the handles to reorder them.
• Play Demo Announcement speaks a sample sentence with your current selection, so you can hear it before you run.

AudioRun works with any heart-rate monitor that speaks the standard Bluetooth LE heart-rate profile or ANT+ — chest straps, armbands, and most sports watches.

• Put the monitor on first — most straps only transmit while they're worn.
• In AudioRun, open Settings → Heart Rate Monitor and tap Scan.
• Pick your device from the list. Each entry is badged BLE (Bluetooth) or ANT+; some devices broadcast on both and appear twice — either works, but choose BLE if you're unsure, since every Android phone supports it while ANT+ needs special hardware.
• AudioRun remembers the pairing and reconnects automatically at the start of each run.

If the scan finds nothing, check that AudioRun has the Nearby devices (Bluetooth) permission — the app will ask for it, but if the prompt was dismissed you can grant it from Android's app settings.

Garmin watches with wrist heart rate (Forerunner, Fenix, Venu, Vivoactive and others) can feed their heart rate to AudioRun — but not through the Bluetooth connection the watch already has to your phone. That link is reserved for Garmin Connect and doesn't share heart rate with other apps. Instead, the watch has to broadcast its heart rate:

• On the watch, open Settings → Wrist Heart Rate (on some models: Sensors & Accessories → Wrist Heart Rate).
• Turn on Broadcast During Activity, then start any activity on the watch (a run, or just an indoor activity) — the watch now broadcasts like a regular heart-rate monitor. There's also a manual Broadcast Heart Rate option, but on many models it only transmits while you stay on that screen, so broadcasting during an activity is the reliable way.
• In AudioRun, pair it as described above. The watch may show up twice — once as BLE, once as ANT+; either entry works.

This is a one-time setup: once paired, you only need the watch to be in an activity (broadcasting) when you start your run. Watches from other makers (Polar, Suunto, Coros, Amazfit) have similar broadcast settings and work the same way.

One thing to know: wrist-based heart rate reacts more slowly and reads less precisely than a chest strap, especially during intervals. For steady runs it's fine; if you train by heart-rate zones, a strap is still the better tool.

Use the feedback form inside the app (Settings → Feedback) or write to mail@mjones-foui.no.