YouTube adds control and voice search for TV from mobile

January 26, 2020, by Santiago Comment

If your Smart TV does not have a command that allows voice searches, you can do it from your cell phone, at least when you want to watch YouTube, because it seems that the Android app will very soon offer this option, in addition to a virtual command to navigate through the content.

Once you broadcast or send content to the TV, by tapping the casting button again you will have the option of doing a voice search directly on the TV or opening a basic virtual remote that also includes said voice search option.

This is the first time I have seen that icon on my Samsung TV.

Previously, when you touched the broadcast button, all you had was a basic control, with a pause / play button, control the volume and stop sending.

YouTube previous screen to control the broadcast.

Unlike the voice search in the YouTube application, which has existed for months, the voice search when casting generates the search directly on the TV and records it there, so that it will be taken into account for your recommendations in that TV. That is, it will not influence the recommendations on your Android (unless you have the same account registered on both computers).

Although I found this novelty in version 15.03.56 of YouTube for Android, which is now available and Google Play, It seems that it is activated at the server level, because after reinstalling the application unfortunately it disappeared and I could not test if the same thing happens when transmitting to a Chromecast or Fire TV Stick, where it would be more interesting to see something like this. Possibly it will be activated in the next days or weeks for everyone.

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