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Have posted elsewhere about Workout Buddy - for synthesised speech it's quite good (there are seemingly some un-natural pauses that give it away) and can see how it could be a motivation.

Hopefully it's not just another one of those things whereby it's cool at first and soon becomes a gimmick.
 
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