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Amazon Fire TV Voice Search Adds More Content Partners
The voice search feature on Amazon's Fire TV is about to get a little more useful.
Amazon on Thursday announced that Hulu Plus, Crackle 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.
Unified voice search is one of the Fire TV's most promising (and time-saving) features. The only problem — as noted in our review of the set-top box — 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...
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