With what certainly is worthy of a "finally!!!", you can now use your voice via Amazon Alexa to control any of your Roku devices.
Roku today announced that at long last — finally, even! — that its TVs and Roku Players now are officially Alexa-enabled. That's been a major miss for Roku in recent years as it's grown in popularity. Now? All you need is to hook up the Alexa Skill.
So what can you do with your Roku via Alexa? You can launch a channel, play and pause shows, or search for various content across the Roku ecosystem. You also can mute your TV, change inputs and even change channels if you've got an over-the-air antenna hooked up to a Roku TV.
To do any of this you'll need an Amazon Echo device, of course — the diminutive Echo Dot runs $50 when it's not on sale — and you'll need a Roku device running OS 8.1 or later. Then you'll just hook your Roku account to your Amazon account via the Alexa Skill, and you're on your way.
Roku Devices Can Now Interact with Amazon Alexa
LOS GATOS, Calif. – March 5, 2019 – Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) today announced that Roku devices are now compatible with Amazon Alexa-enabled devices through the new Roku skill for Alexa. Roku® streaming player and Roku TV™ owners in the US can now control their Roku devices using Alexa. The new voice control compatibility further expands the flexibility and choice for how consumers control their Roku devices and get to their entertainment quickly.
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