You’ve long been able to tell Siri to play any track on your iPhone, and the Say Play app gives you the same ability with music you don’t own. Just open the app, hit the red button and speak the name of the track.
To be sure, you could do a voice search in YouTube, but the app appears to simultaneously search several music video sources, and continues to play the track while you’re using other apps. As you’d expect from an app powered by Nuance, voice-recognition is faultless, and in my brief tests it was lightning-fast.
The app costs $0.99 on iTunes.
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This looks cool. I’ve always hated not being able to play music from youtube in the background (Apple’s Youtube app did this just fine until it was removed).
@Charilaosmulder you should get Jasmine. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jasmine-youtube-client/id554937050?mt=8
youtube client that allows you to play audio in the background via swipe up on and press play
That app seems pretty cool so far, but for subjects that have more than one type content, like Dr. Who it doesn’t give you a choice, it just plays the first thing it finds. Found me the first episode of Greatest American Hero though!
This is a great app: easy, fast, surprisingly accurate.
A tip: to get better results, give Say Play a little more info. For example, say both the name of the song and the name of the artist, especially when you’re looking for a song the app might confuse with something else. Maybe more info will help dennyc69 find the right Dr. Who episode.
I have a full page of ( I don’t understand you ) that I don’t know how to delete. Please help.