Actionable voice commands within a connected fitness platform

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by an exercise machine, cause the exercise machine to perform a method, the method comprising:

• presenting an exercise class to a user of the exercise machine;
• receiving an indication from a remote server that an instructor of the exercise class has spoken a word or phrase that represents the user of the exercise machine;
• and
• performing an action via the exercise machine based on the received indication.

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled with the processor, the processor configured to cause the system to:
• receive a text string based on one or more words spoken by an instructor of a live exercise class,
• wherein the live exercise class is streamed to multiple remote exercise machines that present the live exercise class to users performing exercise activities associated with the live exercise class;
• tokenize the text string into multiple tokens;
• compare the multiple tokens to a database of tokenized usernames associated with the live exercise class;
• and
• identify a member that is participating in the live exercise class based on the comparison.