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Voice Control for Plex on Windows Pc

Developed By: Chris Bellew

License: Free

Rating: 3,3/5 - 123 votes

Last Updated: December 23, 2023

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 2.1.5
Size 8 MB
Release Date January 13, 17
Category Video Players & Editors Apps

App Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (9)]

What's New:
Added new voice commands:What's New, What's on deck, and What new movies do I have.Fixed playback on Amazon Fire TV.Fixed Chromecast Discovery.Internal... [see more]

Description from Developer:
**** Please email me or post to my XDA Thread if you have any problems ***

Control Plex clients with your voice! Voice Control for Plex allows you to send voice commands to Plex f... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Voice Control for Plex and install on Windows PC. Voice Control for Plex is free Video Players & Editors app, developed by Chris Bellew. Latest version of Voice Control for Plex is 2.1.5, was released on 2017-01-13 (updated on 2023-12-23). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 10,000. Overall rating of Voice Control for Plex is 3,3. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 123 users, 46 users had rated it 5*, 31 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Voice Control for Plex on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Voice Control for Plex on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Voice Control for Plex on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Install Voice Control for Plex using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Voice Control for Plex" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Voice Control for Plex on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Voice Control for Plex" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Other versions available: 2.1.5.

Download Voice Control for Plex 2.1.5 on Windows PC – 8 MB

**** Please email me or post to my XDA Thread if you have any problems ***

Control Plex clients with your voice! Voice Control for Plex allows you to send voice commands to Plex for playback and control.

There are four ways to trigger Voice Recognition:
1) Tap the app icon on the main screen.
2) Install the home screen shortcut via the menu button from the Main Settings screen (or manually).
3) Use utter! to pass voice commands to Tasker, which passes those commands on to this app.
4) Similar to #2, but using AutoVoice instead of utter!
5) If your device is rooted, you may install the Xposed Framework (http://goo.gl/qf2xmW) and the Google Search/Now API v1.2.1 (http://goo.gl/WW3Ui0) to have your voice commands passed from Google Now into this app.

To use method #2 or #3 you will have to import a Tasker project via the menu button. After selecting to open the XML project file with Tasker, you will be redirected into Tasker, where you will have to finish the import by long pressing on the Home button (at the bottom of the app), then import, then select VoiceControlForPlex.prj.xml.

If you enjoy this app, please consider purchasing the Donate app to support further development! http://goo.gl/tufHom

Plex clients supported:
Plex Home Theater (OS X, Linux and Windows)
Android (limited to 1 minute, in app purchase to unlock)
iOS
Roku
Chromecast (In-app purchase)

Android Wear is also supported (in-app-purchase)

Upon first launch, you will have the ability to login to Plex. This is recommended as it will allow you to stream from any shared servers you have access to, and your own if it requires Plex login. After initial scanning for servers and clients, you can select your default server via the left navigation menu (if you have multiple PMS's, you can leave this setting to "Scan All" so that all of the servers are scanned for media. If you only have one PMS, however, you should set it here as scanning all servers will cause a delay in starting playback.) Then, select a Plex client via the Cast button in the Toolbar. You can trigger voice recognition via the app logo on the main screen, or via a homescreen shortcut (which you can create via the left navigation menu). Simply start up your chosen Voice Recognition method, and speak any of the below examples to trigger playback on the chosen Plex client. You can also specify a client to stream to by adding "on " to what you say to Google Now.

Usage:

For Movies:
"Watch Aliens"
"Watch Children of Men"
"Watch movie Fight Club" (I guess specifying "movie" would only really be useful for a movie with "Episode" in the title?)

For TV Shows:
"Watch season 1 episode 5 of Homeland"
"Watch The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 2"
"Watch Breaking Bad season 5 episode 8"
"Watch episode Once More With Feeling of Buffy The Vampire Slayer" (Specifying the name of the episode)
"Watch Game of Thrones episode The Rains of Castamere" (Alternate)
"Watch the next episode of The Walking Dead" (uses Plex's "On Deck")
"Watch The Walking Dead" (alternate way of "On Deck", as long as no matching movies are found).
"Watch the latest episode of The Daily Show" (plays the most recent episode by air date)

For Music:
"Listen to Black Sands by Bonobo" - to play a single song
"Listen to the album Drink The Sea by The Glitch Mob" - to play an album
"Listen to the album Music Has The Right To Children" (Artist is optional. Specify if more than one match is found)

Playback control, seeking, and subtitle/audio stream is also supported. See the Usage Examples (via the navigation drawer) in the app for examples.

If you do not have "Resume if in progress" checked, you can say "Resume watching" instead of "Watch" to resume playback.

If you run into problems, or have suggestions or requests, please visit my XDA thread: http://goo.gl/S1IdrF
Added new voice commands:What's New, What's on deck, and What new movies do I have.
Fixed playback on Amazon Fire TV.
Fixed Chromecast Discovery.
Internal refactoring.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.
Allows an application to read from external storage.