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04-18-2014, 07:23 AM
Amazon Fire TV Voice Search Adds More Content Partners
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The voice search feature on Amazon's Fire TV (http://mashable.com/category/fire-tv?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) is about to get a little more useful.
Amazon on Thursday an**unced that Hulu Plus, *****le and Showtime Anytime are adding their full catalogs into the Fire TV's unified voice search. They will join Vevo, which already supports the feature.
See also: Amazon Fire TV Is a Great Living-Room Companion (http://mashable.com/2014/04/05/amazon-fire-tv-review-2/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Unified voice search is one of the Fire TV's most promising (and time-saving) features. The only problem — as **ted in our review of the set-top box (http://mashable.com/2014/04/05/amazon-fire-tv-review-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) — is that the unified search so far only works with Amazon and Vevo content.
So unless you happen to be searching for a music video or a title Amazon carries, unified search is useless. Searching manually for a show on Hulu Plus (unless it is also carried by Amazon) or Netflix requires going inside those separate apps and using the keyboard. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/fire-tv-voice-search-gets-more-content-partners/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The voice search feature on Amazon's Fire TV (http://mashable.com/category/fire-tv?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) is about to get a little more useful.
Amazon on Thursday an**unced that Hulu Plus, *****le and Showtime Anytime are adding their full catalogs into the Fire TV's unified voice search. They will join Vevo, which already supports the feature.
See also: Amazon Fire TV Is a Great Living-Room Companion (http://mashable.com/2014/04/05/amazon-fire-tv-review-2/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Unified voice search is one of the Fire TV's most promising (and time-saving) features. The only problem — as **ted in our review of the set-top box (http://mashable.com/2014/04/05/amazon-fire-tv-review-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) — is that the unified search so far only works with Amazon and Vevo content.
So unless you happen to be searching for a music video or a title Amazon carries, unified search is useless. Searching manually for a show on Hulu Plus (unless it is also carried by Amazon) or Netflix requires going inside those separate apps and using the keyboard. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/fire-tv-voice-search-gets-more-content-partners/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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