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Voice Control added to Foxtel remote

Foxtel Voice Remote to search & browse with the sound of their voice on iQ3 / iQ4.

Foxtel is rolling out a major software update for 1.1 million iQ3 and iQ4 customers, which will enable a new Foxtel Voice Remote to search & browse with the sound of their voice.

Over a quarter of a million customers already have the Foxtel Voice Remote, while for customers wanting to purchase the remote Foxtel has introduced a lower price of $29.

Patrick Delany, Foxtel Group Chief Executive Officer, said: “Foxtel is known for its breadth and depth of content across movies, entertainment, lifestyle, documentaries and sport. We have more than 40,000 individual titles available including full season stacks, and we’ve had massive increases in titles available on demand.

“It means we have great shows for every family member however with so much choice, finding it for the big screen hasn’t always been simple – try typing in a search for the multi- award winning Chernobyl.

“With the launch of our new user interface last year and now the Voice control, we are continuing to invest in innovation to reimagine people’s experience of Foxtel and ensure we provide a premium experience of the best of TV and on-demand, all in one place.”

The Voice Remote is only active when the microphone button is pushed, ensuring users can feel confident about the privacy within their home.

The update enabling the Voice control is already underway and will be completed during October and November.

With its smart voice recognition technology, customers can simply push the microphone button and speak a command to the Foxtel Voice Remote, enabling them to:
• Search for a specific show, sporting team, actor, director, character or even use a famous movie quote from a film.
– For example, “Good Will Hunting” will return the movie, while saying a famous movie quote like “may the force be with you” will show Star Wars movies, with over 500 movie quotes currently available.
– Combination search commands are also available such as “action movies” and “just the ones with Tom Cruise”.
– Plus the Voice Remote understands the local lingo navigating with ease to sporting team nicknames like “Rabbitohs” or “Magpies” and recognising 10 major Australian accents.

• Browse specific themes, genres and moods of content. For example, “show me Christmas movies”, “show me romantic comedy movies”, “show me air crash investigation shows” or “show me home renovation shows” will return a list of content.

• Adjust volume, play, pause, rewind, skip ahead, channel change and schedule recordings.

* Requires internet connected iQ3 or iQ4

www.foxtel.com.au/voice-remote

One Response

  1. Cool, but I wish they’d work on increasing the image quality. Which is improving the core product. Why is SD even a thing on there? A fair amount of the HD content is quite poorly compressed and even the best like BBC Earth is still noticeably lower quality than content any of the major streamers.
    Shows with dark colour palettes like Warrior look atrocious. I thought the backlash from the dark Game of Thrones episode would have made them address this issue, sadly it hasn’t.

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