Navigating the Challenges of Embedded Voice-Control for Smart TVs (.PDF Download)

With the pandemic forcing us to spend more time at home, analysts predict the average American will spend 2 hours and 46 minutes watching TV every day this year. Knowing American consumers are spending so much time watching TV, we can also assume they spend quite a bit of time searching for new content.

Historically, most people would use a remote as their search mechanism, but anyone who’s ever manually searched for a new show using an on-screen keyboard knows how clunky and slow it is. Push-to-talk (PTT) remotes have emerged as a savior in the last decade by providing a better user experience than keyboards. However, PTT on remotes still requires that the user actually finds the remote and presses the microphone to effectively control the TV by voice.