Dish Software Update Enables Integrated Google Assistant Voice Functionality

Dish Network added Google Assistant voice control to its Hopper receivers via a software update that began rolling out Wednesday. Customers can use Assistant to ask questions about what they’re watching, receive weather updates, view photos on screen and control smart devices, it said. Customers can also use the Dish remote to ask Assistant general questions such as game scores and see answers on the screen, Dish said. Verbal and visual responses are said to be seamlessly integrated into the existing Dish voice control experience across all Hopper family receivers using cloud-rendering technology from TVersity. Customers with a Dish voice remote and all generations of broadband-connected Hopper, Joey and Wally receivers can access Google Assistant once they receive the software update, said Dish.