What I find is that most alarm clock apps do not have features like to wake up to radio(FM/streaming), wake up to a preset/randomized playlist or podcasts, gradual increase in alarm volume(android stock app allows a volume ramp up, but its ramping duration is too short).
My wife's Xiaomi phone has some woman speaking Chinese every morning (not sure what she's saying, we don't speak it), which reminds me, need to find a way to turn it off.
She's telling you the time and weather. Depending on the circumstances she will add some tips like "Put on sunscreen", "bring an umbrella" or "put on a mask to protect against pollution". First time I heard the latter one I was like "I'm living in one of these dystopian sci-fi films I love so much...".
edit: To get rid of it, just change the alarm sound. It's nothing special, just one of the options.
What I find is that most alarm clock apps do not have features like to wake up to radio(FM/streaming), wake up to a preset/randomized playlist or podcasts, gradual increase in alarm volume(android stock app allows a volume ramp up, but its ramping duration is too short).
Since 2012 you can set the built-in iOS alarm clock to wake up to the song of your choice.
From the app: Edit > pick your alarm > Sound > Pick a song > Then select the song you want.
It's not great that it can't just wake you up to a shuffled morning playlist, but it's better than a ringtone.
(I have mine set to one of the train station jingles from a Tokyo Metro CD.)
Does it use the alarms's volume level for playing the podcast or does it use the media volume level?
Strangely it does not seem to support playing media/playlist/radio from google music as alarm.
Even more strangely it all requires to be set up using Google Assistant, I mean is there someway to configure it without using voice commands to the Google Assistant, which is a tedious and cumbersome interface for such a complex functionality.
