Smart TV platform YouView has added voice search via Amazon’s Alexa to its retail set top boxes.
By installing the YouView skill for Alexa, users can search by programme name and actor or star by using phrases such as ‘Alexa, search for shows with Prue Leith’ or ‘Alexa, search for EastEnders’.
The new feature comes in a software update being pushed out today and is available to users of Humax’s T2000 set top boxes.
YouView says it will be adding more voice commands and more advanced search options “soon”.