When Amazon introduced the Fire TV yesterday, much was made about the ability to do voice search on the device. In the linked post, Kirk McElhearn walks through the process of doing the same thing on Apple TV, using the iOS Remote app. Cool beans.
How to use Voice Search with the Apple TV
I’ve been doing this for a while. It’s a great use for the iPod Touch in the TV room besides airplay for music.
Great find.
I just wish the Apple TV had the system wide content search that Roku and now the Fire TV have
If you have to find out about this through blogs and word-of-mouth, then it’s effectively not built-in.
I’ve also been doing this for a while. I was an early adopter of Dictation since I’ve always hated typing, even on a physical keyboard, let alone a tiny virtual one. I also quickly used it on the Mac as soon as it was available. I also bought the iPad 3 to replace my original iPad just for that feature.
I started with Remote but now I go straight to Siri with a simple “Play «Here Comes The Sun»”. Of course you have to link to Airplay. I hope Apple will come up with the ability to just say “AirPlay «Here Comes The Sun»” and have it connect, then play. So nice doing this outside on the deck without having to come in.