Just got my Fire TV and fiddled around a bit. I noticed that the built in microphone of the remote only works for the Amazon content search.
Can it somehow be used to dictate text? Searching on Youtube would be nice for example!
murr4y said:
Just got my Fire TV and fiddled around a bit. I noticed that the built in microphone of the remote only works for the Amazon content search.
Can it somehow be used to dictate text? Searching on Youtube would be nice for example!
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Not sure but I believe it only processes for a voice search. They have an Android app that has a virtual keyboard that you can use to type stuff in for any app, I use that if I want to search in Netflix or XBMC and it works great.
Thought someone might like to have a launcher for the mobile version of Skype.
https://github.com/bdkoepke/SkypeTV/blob/master/SkypeTV.apk
I used this image as the banner: https://github.com/bdkoepke/SkypeTV/blob/master/app/src/main/res/drawable/banner.png
README.md:
Skype doesn't yet support Android TV, but sideloading the mobile apk works fine.
This application lets you launch skype from Android TV using the leanback launcher
Can we use remote as microphone to talk on skype?
I am looking for the easiest way to add voice control back to the Shield 2017 now that I am using a Harmony hub remote. I would mainly just use it for the voice search feature on apps like YouTube and such. Would something like Alexa or Google Home be the best way, or can it be done from an Android phone? Thanks.
The Android TV Remote android app is one option for sure.
google home app on phone
Hi,
I am looking for an speech to text APK on fire CUBE, anyone please
1. the APK can voice recognization and send to Email or post on web, or voice notes
2.the APK is compatiable with cube remote
anyone know about it, please give me hint.
anyone know if firestick supports some kind of external control protocol? I stumbled on a Siri shortcut that allows me to control my tcl tv with siri and I’m wondering if I can do the same with the firestick, if firestick apps can do it then there has to be a listening port.
You can do a lot through ADB
Android Debug Bridge (adb) | Android Studio | Android Developers
Find out about the Android Debug Bridge, a versatile command-line tool that lets you communicate with a device.
developer.android.com
And a number of things through Alexa.
I'm not sure about Siri communicating directly with the FireTV.
Finnzz said:
You can do a lot through ADB
Android Debug Bridge (adb) | Android Studio | Android Developers
Find out about the Android Debug Bridge, a versatile command-line tool that lets you communicate with a device.
developer.android.com
And a number of things through Alexa.
I'm not sure about Siri communicating directly with the FireTV.
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I thought of adb but I’m not sure that can work with the shortcuts app. Siri doesn’t communicate directly with the firestick, a shortcut has to be created in the shortcut app like a script, then all I have to say is “hey Siri [name of shortcut]” for it to run.
Also firestick apps don’t use adb so I’m pretty sure there’s a listening port for button presses just don’t know what it is or what the key press command is or if that’s how it even works.
Here’s the ECP link for tcl TVs https://developer.roku.com/en-ca/docs/developer-program/debugging/external-control-api.md
here’s an example of a shortcut for my tcl tv to change hdmi port below.
You can launch any FireTV/Android app with an ADB command remotely. Using this along with something like HomeAssistant and Alexa integration you can pretty much voice control any function you can imagine. HomeAssistant also has at least 2 homekit integrations, so something similar might be possible with Siri. But this would be a lot more involved than installing an app.
I'm not familiar with iOS and Siri. I imagine TCL made an app for voice control, that runs on the TV, that can communicate with Siri. I doubt Amazon made something like that for FireTV since Siri is in competition with Alexa. But maybe there is a third party app?
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I'm not familiar with iOS and Siri. I imagine TCL made an app for voice control, that runs on the TV, that can communicate with Siri. I doubt Amazon made something like that for FireTV since Siri is in competition with Alexa. But maybe there is a third party app?
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No tcl just has a listening port for key presses & other things, But it doesn’t listen for Siri voice commands.
iOS has a shortcuts app that allows you to create shortcuts through scripting & those shortcuts (scripts) Can be activated with Siri by saying the name of the shortcut, so it works like this
“Hey Siri Xbox” -> activates the shortcut (a script named “Xbox”) which is scripted to send commands to the tv through a listening port.
So what I need to know is what ports / commands do firestick apps use for its button presses, then I can create a script (shortcut) to be used with Siri.