Apple Fitness+ Coming to 28 New Regions With Digital Voice Dubbing

[MarcinRSE]

Can anyone help me understand ? If digitally generated voice dubbing comes in Spanish and German what will be used in other new markets ? English voice plus national subtitles ?

 

[turbo79]

Just got one of the Life Rowers to add to my Fitness+ Workouts.

Excellent. Josh, Anya and Bakari are all great instructors. Anya is a a bit of an energizer bunny however, so I tend to stick with Josh on mornings where I don't feel like 30 all-outs in 30 minutes!

I've heard that some people are put off by their Disneyesque smiles, but I quite like starting my day with their fun positive energy.

 

[iPhoneFan5349]

Apple: We have to discontinue the iPhone Mini and Airs because they're not selling in massive volumes, otherwise we'll go out of business.

Also Apple: We will continue spending on localizing a service most people don't know or care exists.

Hypothesis: Apple views the iPhone as a cash cow to extract maximum profit from the market, while services are seen as an investment to create more future profit.

I mean, it’s a AI generated voice, so I don’t know why wouldn’t they release it in other countries

 

[usbwire]

"The new dubbing system uses a generated voice modeled on each of the 28 Fitness+ trainers' real voices"

The term digital voice dubbing....just say AI. It's autogenerated ai based off the persons's voice, which is something arc raiders also does, and recognizes as AI.

 

[twinlight]

So auto dubbed after so many years of waiting. I hope I can choose english because I won’t tolerate a generated norwegian voice just because I happen to live in Norway…

 

[Yenzi999]

Good news! Please expand also Apple One Premier to all these countries. I have to pay separately for the Family Plan and additionally for 2TB. Now the third subscription for Apple Fitness Plus.

 

[iccb]

So great news! This proves that Tim Cook reads these forums!

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/future-of-apple-fitness-under-review.2470795/post-34278022

 

[threesixty360]

Didnt someone write a story about how Apple fitness was going badly and everyone on a tech blog (hardly the target market) waded in on how it was another Apple failure etc.

Its almost as if a lot of rumours are just that.. rumours...

 

[nutmac]

Maybe Apple can finally free up few engineers to bring Fitness+ to the Mac?

 

[matzoek]

Didnt someone write a story about how Apple fitness was going badly and everyone on a tech blog (hardly the target market) waded in on how it was another Apple failure etc.

Its almost as if a lot of rumours are just that.. rumours...

Forks found in kitchen drawer. More news at eight.

 

[pappl]

Finally!
Selling Fitness+ workouts in english language to e.g. german people was insane.

 

[sloheim]

It's time to ditch Fitness+, and go whole hog on Health+. That will become Apple's killer app.

 

[Siannath]

Good. I'm gonna use it in English, but I'm glad that there are options. More importantly, I'm glad it finally is available in my country of residence.

 

[SamboSoul]

nice, but again Thailand hasn’t made it. Apple has rolled it out to almost all other ASEAN countries. Disappointing

 

[bigluonei]

Wonderful, have been looking forward to try it! Finally available in my country

 

[Leon Nash]

Have they published the full list of countries anywhere?

• Fitness+ is available today in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S.
• The service will be available in Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Venezuela, and Vietnam beginning December 15, with Japan to follow early next year.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Boo, still not available in Denmark. All the other nordic countries are in now, except us!

Language barrier is still a real thing, so I’m pretty happy they did this. I’ll be able to do the exercises along with my parents now, which wasn’t possible before.

You can't talk to your parents?

 

[svish]

Glad to see that it is expanding to many more countries including mine. Don't think I will subscribe but still happy to see it in my region.

 

[turbo79]

Boo, still not available in Denmark. All the other nordic countries are in now, except us!


You can't talk to your parents?

I'm sure they'll add Denmark soon. They're just searching for the right size potato for the Norwegian's throat...

 

[ahe]

So… More AI slop. Plus the dialogues are probably machine-translated as well, so expect awkwardness and weirdly distracting messages while you exercise.

I mean, they have more money than God, but why pay voice actors anyway?

 

[dexterie]

At last!
And this comes right when I was considering letting go of my Apple Watch for a Whoop band or something alike. ahahah

 

[wanha]

I guess Fitness+ isn't being cancelled after all.

Future of Apple Fitness+ 'Under Review'

The future of Apple Fitness+ is "under review" amid a reorganization of the service, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple Fitness+ remains one of the company's "weakest digital offerings". The service apparently suffers...

www.macrumors.com

just needed a coat of localized AI voices and it's as good as new

 

[LasseFar93]

No Denmark, but Sweden and Norway?! Come on Apple, just release it already…

 

[nawr]

No Denmark, but Sweden and Norway?! Come on Apple, just release it already…

Sweden and Norway are on the list, so that leaves only Denmark without Fitness+ after December 15 :/

 

[mdellepi]

In the US it is bundled in the Apple One subscription.
We in Europe have to pay 10,- on top of Apple One ??

In Italy I have it included in my Apple One, together with Music, TV and Arcade.