Feature request, support Google assistant spoken commands to start and stop playing

[cpsj]

When driving, I can use Google Assistant to launch this application totally hands free. However once the application is running I would love to have the ability for the application to respond to a "Start Playing" and "Pause Playing" by voice commands. This is much safer, and in Canada is the only legal way to do this while the vehicle is in motion.

I use this to listen to audio books when bicycling, and when driving using a hands free blue tooth adaptor for the car radio.

I have also thought that the name of the app would be a problem, since there are so many things in Android the have the word voice in the title. A different name that was unique would be helptfull for hands free lauching. Today I managed to launch it by a spoken command while in the past this never seemed to work. The phrase "OK Google app Voice" does start this app now.

Thanks Pixel 3A phone.

[bicklp]

When driving, I can use Google Assistant to launch this application totally hands free. However once the application is running I would love to have the ability for the application to respond to a "Start Playing" and "Pause Playing" by voice commands. This is much safer, and in Canada is the only legal way to do this while the vehicle is in motion.

I use this to listen to audio books when bicycling, and when driving using a hands free blue tooth adaptor for the car radio.

I have also thought that the name of the app would be a problem, since there are so many things in Android the have the word voice in the title. A different name that was unique would be helptfull for hands free lauching. Today I managed to launch it by a spoken command while in the past this never seemed to work. The phrase "OK Google app Voice" does start this app now.

Thanks Pixel 3A phone.

I would also really like this capability ... coming from iPhone and using BookPlayer with shortcuts i could just say 'hey siri, play my book' and it would open the app and start playing ...

On my Pixel, If Voice was the last thing playing i can say 'Hey Google, resume' and it works

But if i try and make a routine like, 'Hey Google, Open Voice app' -> 'Play'. if spotify was the last thing playing it will play that instead of the book

This would be great if you guys could add it in there

Thanks

[PaulWoitaschek]

https://github.com/android/uamp/issues/432

It's not related to the title. Even renaming the App to sth really unique like MushroomPlayer wouldn't fix this.

This is a limitation of the Android Assistant. There are only a few players who are in direct contact with Google that are whitelisted within the Assistant.