"Hey, Spotify:" New features make themselves redundant

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March 5, 2020, 4:06 pm Reading time: 1 minute

The Spotify app will obviously be equipped with voice control soon. You should be able to control the music of the streaming service using the command "Hey Spotify". Obviously, this only works under fairly cumbersome conditions.

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In the past, Twitter user Jane Manchun Wong was able to find new features in the beta or source code of the app. Now she claims in a Twitter post that Spotify is working to install voice controls in the Spotify app.

"Hey Spotify" should be used as a voice command. Voice commands are similar to calls to Google Assistant. You can activate it with "Hey Google" even if your smartphone is not activated at all. This does not apply to Spotify.

Voice input only when Spotify is on and visible

As can be seen from the screenshots of Twitter users, voice commands only work when the smartphone display is active and the app is open. Therefore, you need to unlock your phone before entering it. This makes speech input unusable in many situations where it really makes sense.

For example, if you have your phone in your pocket while listening to music, you must take it out, unlock it, open the app before you can speak a voice command. The release of new features will show whether it is not easy to manually operate the music streaming service at all.