6 Essential TiVo Voice Remote Commands

What’s one of the most significant ways TiVo improves your TV time? Simple… Press it, say it, and watch it. The TiVo voice remote lets you control your TiVo experience with your voice, making it easier than ever to watch your favorite shows and movies. Just press and hold the blue microphone button on your remote and give a command, like “Watch Modern Family.” Release the button, and TiVo does the rest! 

Let TiVo help you find what to watch. You can search by keyword for an instant peek at what’s playing, but you don’t need to waste precious viewing time with tap-tap-tapping an on-screen keyboard. Just speak naturally to your remote to find what you want to watch.

• “Show me action movies”
• “Show me movies from the 90s”
• “Show me Tom Cruise movies”
• “Baseball games”
• “Show me Star Wars cartoons”
• “Go to HGTV”
• “Hasta la vista, baby”

You can also add to your initial command to get more specific: “Show me action movies… just the ones with Bruce Willis.”

Have you ever fast-forwarded through commercials and accidentally skipped part of the show only to have to rewind and resume play too far in the other direction? Those days are over! Ask TiVo to jump to a certain minute mark of the show or rewind a certain number of minutes, and you’ll snap to the precise moment you want with these navigation commands. 

• “Go to the 15-minute mark”
• “Fast forward five minutes” 
• “Rewind 8 minutes”
• “Go to live tv”
• “Jump to end”
• “Go back to the beginning”
• “Pause”
• “Play”
   

Tired of sifting through menus and endless button presses to get what you want? Use TiVo voice commands to manage other options with ease.

• “Launch Hulu”
• “Turn on closed captions” 
• “Turn off text to speech”