When you miss dialogue in a quiet scene, or need to step away for a minute, you can use voice commands like rewind and pause to control playback of a movie, song, or TV show.

  • Playback commands
    “fast forward”
    “rewind”

    “pause”
    “stop”
    “resume”
    “continue”

    “skip”
    “next”
    “replay”

  • Closed captioning commands
    “turn on closed captioning”
    “hide the captions”
    “show captions during replay”
    “turn on captions during mute”
    “what’s my captions setting?”

When watching content on some streaming channels including The Roku Channel, you can also use the advanced playback commands below.

  • Move forward a specific amount of time
    “forward 15 minutes”
    “skip 5 minutes”
    “fast forward 3 minutes”
    “go forward 10 minutes”

  • Move backward (or rewind) a specific amount of time
    “go back half an hour”
    “rewind 30 minutes”

  • Restart video from beginning
    “start over”