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Voice control

Use your Roku voice remote to search your libraries and to control what’s playing without reaching for the buttons.

A Roku voice remote. Roku decides which words it understands; JellyRock acts on the commands Roku passes on.

  • On the Search screen, speak instead of typing. JellyRock waits until you finish speaking, then searches for the whole phrase.
  • In a library, speak while the library is open to show only the items whose names match. In the Live TV guide, the same narrows the channel list.

While a video plays, you can ask your Roku to:

  • play, pause or stop;
  • fast-forward or rewind, or skip forward or back a number of seconds or minutes;
  • start over from the beginning;
  • replay the last few seconds; how far is set by Instant Replay Duration;
  • skip: skips the intro, recap or other marked part playing now (see Media segments), or goes to the next item when nothing is marked;
  • go to the next item;
  • say what’s playing;
  • like it, which marks it as a favorite, or dislike it, which takes it off your favorites.

While music plays, the same commands work, and you can also shuffle or repeat.

If a command doesn’t apply, for example pausing something already paused, Roku tells you so.