topic Re: Voice commands for partially sighted and blind. in Sky Accessibility

Voice commands for partially sighted and blind.

RC2023 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:03:03 GMT

my mum is partially sighted and has Alzheimer's disease. She uses the voice commands for changing channels however. There's are several channels that don't work with voice commands so she is not able to access them.

channels that start "U&" don't work with voice commands also itv quiz. I know the latter has only just launched but I was wondering when it would get updated.

thanks

Rob

Re: Voice commands for partially sighted and blind.

Daniel0210 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:31:25 GMT

@RC2023

I've just tried the following voice commands on my Sky Q mini box…

U & Alibi worked
U & W didnt work
U & Drama worked
U & Gold worked
U & Dave worked
ITV Quiz worked

Re: Voice commands for partially sighted and blind.

RC2023 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:52:58 GMT

My mum is on the signature package, however as of the last time I tried itv quiz it would only work if you said itv be

Re: Voice commands for partially sighted and blind.

Annie+UK — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:56:30 GMT

Have you rebooted the Sky box?

Re: Voice commands for partially sighted and blind.

MrRichAllen1976 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:30:26 GMT

Unfortunately I know from painful experience that if you have a distinctive accent, some voice control apps don't understand you.