NOTE: By default these voice controls are disabled as they use an as yet unknown amount of internet. You can turn them on in the "general" section of Settings.
Google Play Music Desktop Player has implemented the webkitSpeechRecognition
API to pick up what you say and uses a cool JS command parser that I wrote myself
to translate that into a single action or a complex series of actions.
For example you can say some as simple as:
Hey music, pause
This would simply pause your music
To something as complex as:
Hey music, can you set the volume to 40%, play playlist My Tunes and then mix it up
Which would
- Set your volume to 40%
- Play one of your playlists with the name "My Tunes"
- Turn shuffle on play a random song from your current queue
This voice controls are as powerful as we make them, if you want a new voice command you can try implement it yourself or raise a feature request issue.
All command listed below must be prefixed with a hotword. Our current hotword's
are Hey music
and OK player
.
You commands don't have to sound robotic either, you can use basic grammar between commands such as 'can you'. So instead of Hey music pause it becomes nicer and Hey music, can you pause.
Play playlist [playlist name]
Play the playlist [playlist name]
Note: This is the ONLY command that cannot be followed by any other commands
Pause
Play
Next
Next Track
Forward
Fast forward
Previous
Previous Track
Back
Rewind
Start again
This song sucks
This song is great
This song is epic
This song is awesome
This song rocks
This song rules
Mix it up
Shuffle
Shake
Random
Turn shuffle on
Shuffle on
Turn shuffle off
Shuffle off
Go to artist [Artist Name]
Load artist [Artist Name]
Navigate to artist [Artist Name]
NOTE: This doesn't work with All Access artists yet
Settings
Open Settings Show Settings
Load Settings
Turn it up
Bring it up
Turn the volume up
Make it louder
I can't hear it
Turn it down
Take it down
Turn the volume down
Make it quieter
Make it more quiet
Set volume to [Number]
Set volume [Number]
Set the volume to [Number]
Make the volume [Number]
Note: [Number] must a number between 0 and 100 and can optionally be followed by percent.
Make it boom
Sing it out
Pump it
Get this party started
Shut up
Mute
Silence
Turn this right down
Party is over
Reset the volume
Normalize