@edwardotis Thanks for the notes here. Channels may currently choose to support text entry input from the Roku mobile app, or not to support this feature. If you are not able to use your mobile keyboard to enter text into a field within a channel, it's likely that the channel has chosen not to support that feature. I'd recommend following up with that channel provider directly to share your feedback and interest in being able to use that functionality within their channel.
Thanks,
Tanner
"cosrocket1" wrote:
I purchased the Roku Ultra but I am disappointed in that it seems I cannot search by voice in the YouTube app. I tried a few times but always get a can't do this response. I had called Roku support before purchasing it and was told I would be able to. I watch a lot of YouTube videos so being able to search YouTube by voice is important to me.
Was I misinformed or am I doing something wrong?
that just awful. I also realized that search working only in Netflix but not in amazon or youtube
@edwardotis Thanks for the notes here. Channels may currently choose to support text entry input from the Roku mobile app, or not to support this feature. If you are not able to use your mobile keyboard to enter text into a field within a channel, it's likely that the channel has chosen not to support that feature. I'd recommend following up with that channel provider directly to share your feedback and interest in being able to use that functionality within their channel.
Thanks,
Tanner
@RokuTannerD wrote:@edwardotis Thanks for the notes here. Channels may currently choose to support text entry input from the Roku mobile app, or not to support this feature. If you are not able to use your mobile keyboard to enter text into a field within a channel, it's likely that the channel has chosen not to support that feature. I'd recommend following up with that channel provider directly to share your feedback and interest in being able to use that functionality within their channel.
Thanks,
Tanner
@cosrocket1 @RokuTannerD @edwardotis
I am in the same boat as you, needing this as a feature, especially for YouTube, which is the primary channel I use on Roku. I was also led to believe that the Roku Ultra remote's voice search would work in the YouTube channel. I'd rather not have to use my phone since that's basically just casting from a device which could already be done without an Ultra.
The primary reason I upgraded to the Ultra was for the remote's voice-input ability, since there are a number of input dialogs throughout the Roku/channels that require input and it's a pain having to type with arrow keys. It'd be great if we could do this with the Roku remote's voice input and not have to use a separate device.
Honestly the support for Roku and especially Roku in Canada has been terrible.. I'm constantly dissapointed with my purchase as it does little more than a PlayStation or Blu Ray player with internet connection.. voice controls are faulty or minimal at best. No support for Netflix the number one streaming service .. overall I believe it to be some marketing tactic to get our money
This will just straight up not work for anybody who's considering which device to purchase. It will continually redirect you to channels you don't want to use in an effort to get you to purchase things. this is among many glitchy issues with the Roku, I would never buy another one of these and have several fire sticks which just work everyday without any intervention.If you're considering buying this, do yourself a favor unless you like to endlessly fiddle with things to try and get it to do what you want.
Open youtube on Roku. Go to search. Then open the Roku app on your phone. Then click on Remote. Then click on the microphone button. Say what you want to search for, click on the button to stop the microphone. Then you'll see on your TV, it will search what you spoke into the microphone. It is the same thing. It would be great to use the Roku voice from the remote but cannot at the moment. I'm using the Roku express on my old HDTV, and this method works. It's just the added step of using the Roku app to voice search. But of course you also have the entire remote app on your phone, so you can just use your phone for everything as the remote instead of your physical remote.