topic Re: Voice control never works properly in Sky Q

Voice control never works properly

Rob74Lynch — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:52:44 GMT

Why is it that whenever I say "skip 30 minutes" or "skip one hour", etc... into the voice remote, it always interprets it as "skip 5 minutes", regardless of whatever time I say?

I've tried speaking as clearly as possible, directly into the (clean) microphone - yet very rarely does it seem to understand the time I say, and always seems to respond by skipping 5 minutes at a time!

So annoying when I'm trying to find a place in a movie but have to move in 5 minute increments every time.

Re: Voice control never works properly

oldfella — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:22:55 GMT

@Rob74Lynch wrote:

Why is it that whenever I say "skip 30 minutes" or "skip one hour", etc... into the voice remote, it always interprets it as "skip 5 minutes", regardless of whatever time I say?

I've tried speaking as clearly as possible, directly into the (clean) microphone - yet very rarely does it seem to understand the time I say, and always seems to respond by skipping 5 minutes at a time!

So annoying when I'm trying to find a place in a movie but have to move in 5 minute increments every time.

Strange @Rob74Lynch

Regularly use skip here without issues. Even skip 4 minutes 15 seconds is correctly picked up for skipping ITV adverts

Re: Voice control never works properly

nigea99 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:41:29 GMT

@Rob74Lynch wrote:

Why is it that whenever I say "skip 30 minutes" or "skip one hour", etc... into the voice remote, it always interprets it as "skip 5 minutes", regardless of whatever time I say?

I've tried speaking as clearly as possible, directly into the (clean) microphone - yet very rarely does it seem to understand the time I say, and always seems to respond by skipping 5 minutes at a time!

So annoying when I'm trying to find a place in a movie but have to move in 5 minute increments every time.

Although it does get it wrong occasionally for me it generally works.

Can I point out that "Go To nn minutes" is also useful - You can use hours, minutes & seconds or mix e.g. Go to 1hour 15 minutes

Re: Voice control never works properly

5thn — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:40:11 GMT

Ours and my sister's have both started interpretting 'skip' as 'Get'. Coincidence? Or or Sky trying to stop us skipping adverts?

Re: Voice control never works properly

Harry100 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 22:11:44 GMT

Me too, started about a week ago.