Sky Q didn’t launch with support for voice control. The feature, which wasn’t finished in time to launch with the overhauled satellite box, arrived one year after Sky Q launched in the UK.
Since then, Sky has slowly added a number of increasingly advanced voice control features to its Sky Q system.
As it stands, Sky Q viewers can search the set-top box for movies or TV shows based on the director, actor, release date – or even based on famous quotes likes “show me the money!”.
The original Sky Q remote had the voice search button on the top right hand-side of the control. Since it had to be held in to trigger the feature, this placement wasn’t ideal.
As for the remote that shipped with the Sky Q Mini box – it didn’t even have a voice control button!
Thankfully, that could all be about to change. Sky has published an image of a redesigned remote control on its website with the voice control button now front-and-centre.
On the new remote, the voice control button is located just above the Record button, presumably leaving the right hand-side of the remote button-less.
Unfortunately, there is no sign on this all-new look remote in the Sky Store.
However, there’s a new Sky Q Mini remote complete with a voice control button (albeit on the side) that you can buy to kit-out your Sky Q set-up.
Express.co.uk has approached Sky to find out when – or where – customers can get their hands on the new voice control remote seen on their website.
We’ll update this article as soon as we hear back, so stay tuned.