Hi all,
maybe you’ve noticed that Windows 10 is right before our doors and with that, Cortana.
This fancy little assistant might be somewhat that could be useful 
You know, you sit on you couch and you just sey: “Hey Cortana, can you please play THOR for me” and it just would start to play it, or pause it, or… you know where this is going to =)
Leave a rating and a comment, what do you think about an integration in your Plex Home Theater?
I posted this elsewhere looking for a laugh, but this thread seems even more appropriate:
Looking forward to walking into my theater and saying… “Hey Cortana, Let’s watch a movie”
Boom… Plex loads up…
Then Cortana says, “Would you like it on the Desktop or the Projector Screen?”
And I say, “Throw it on the big screen this time.”
Then Cortana asks, “Did you have a film in mind, or shall I pick one for you?”
And I reply, “You go ahead and pick something for me.”
So Cortana replies, “Well, you’ve been watching a lot of porn lately… would you like to try something different?”
That’s when my wife smacks me, and tosses the remote through the screen…
OK… so maybe not.
[The above scenario was presented purely as a satirical event for entertainment purposes only - and does not reflect upon my personal viewing preferences. Nor is it intended to portray my wife as anything but a beautiful, calm and rational woman. :)) ]
Haha, thank you, you made my day =D
But seriously, it would be awesome if this would work, also this pron kind of thing except the pron
Personally I find voice search/control systems worthless but others clearly feel differently. I cannot conceive even one situation where I would have any desire to use a voice system.
I had the opportunity to test Amazon’s “Echo” for free and to keep the device after testing and, as much as I like gadgets, I turned it down. It just seems to me that having a useless, for me, device is not worth any of my time.
But, as I said, my choice is not best for everyone but if it can be implemented fairly easily and turned off for those of us that don’t want it then I would find no real reason to object. However if Plex would have to spend any significant resources to implement then I would object. But my objections are not particularly powerful in having an effect on Plex’s, or most any other company’s, decisions as far as product development goes and the allocation of resources.
Whenever I say anything in my home my dog believes I am talking to him and trying to control my electronics via voice would confuse him to no end and he gets confused easily enough now. (Think Odie)
@Plexhilarated That reminded me of this I found a few years ago:
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At some point I agree with you, for example the voice assistant in Android.
It can just start a search, or open an app, that it is, very disappointing.
The key that is missing is the deep integration that would make everything awesome.
I often drive in my car around and get a message, now I want to replay without take my hands of the wheel.
Something like, OK Google, open my whatsapp chat with Barbara and reply… bla bla bla.
That are the thing that make a voice assistant valuable, helpful and useful, in my opinion.
So, in some way I agree with you,
deeply integrated voice assistant: yes
everything else: no
Hmmm, I thought voting also pushes post up… don’t seems so.
Please also leave a comment to keep this request up
I’d use it! But does Cortana have those APIs exposed yet?
Sure, here are two links where you can read a little bit about the integration and usage:
msdn.microsoft.com
Edit: I think the second link isn’t related to Cortana
Like the idea but wouldn’t this be restricted to a subset of clients (those that are running on Windows).
@perrottg said:
Like the idea but wouldn’t this be restricted to a subset of clients (those that are running on Windows).
Yes, just like the current Android application Google Now integration only works on, well, the Android application.
That’s true, it only runs on it own eco system, just like Siri or what ever Google is calling it’s Voice Assistant =D
@perrottg said:
Like the idea but wouldn’t this be restricted to a subset of clients (those that are running on Windows).
No, it also works on Windows Phone, and Cortana is coming to Android and ios too. And windows 10 is off to great start so far, and Windows still is the most popular desktop OS, so I think Cortana is going to be fairly widely available.
That’s right but I don’t think that Apple will allow Cortana to be that much integrated in IOS, so we can get a use out of it. Android maybe work.
I think it will be better if you stick to the speech assistant thats related to its own eco system, apple = siri, andoid = (i still don’t know its name ^^) and microsoft = cortana.
And then there are still the other clients of plex… TVs, Roku etc.
Its a hard decision where you want to start, it would be nice to get a word of a dev here
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