It's not in this house!

I don't have one. Right now in the rv all I have is my direct TV, and Blu-ray player and a built-in radio.

Never heard of it. Really. So you aren't last.

I don't and none of my friends do, to my knowledge. Does it work well? How many different voices can it be programmed to accept?

Oh, I thought this would be 'old news'.

We finally dropped our tortoise AT&T internet, which was too slow to stream movies. We signed up for Comcast Xfinity internet with Blast! (trademark). It's 75 Mbps.

While we were at it, we signed up for Xfinity Cable TV -- just for one year, to see how we liked it. We have the speedy internet, an HD-DVR Cable Box, and one additional box (kitchen TV). This is $100/mo. for 12 months. (Will surely be a lot more in future!) We are renting a modem/router for an additional $10/mo but will buy one if this all works out well.

The cable TV comes with a remote that has a microphone in it. You press and hold a button and speak into it. It recognizes any voice. You can say, "NBC" and -- boom! -- you see the program running on NBC. You say "Doc Martin" and see what episodes are available -- mostly free, but some episodes for $2.99. You can say "Martin Clunes"; you'll get his biography. One of the apps the installer showed my DH lets you watch a baseball game and pull up on the margin a menu where you can learn every detail of each player and his performance so far in that game. Almost every feature of the service can be activated by voice command -- or by inputting station numbers if you wish.

Now...this was not without stress. We had no Comcast cable in our house. Last Friday we had an appointment for installation to take place between 8 and 10 a.m. We were ready at 8, but the installer called just before 10 to say he'd arrive by 10:30. He did, and he started looking for the cable box that would serve our home. (The missed appointment earned us a $25 credit on the $50 installation bill.)

An hour later, a second installer arrived. Between them, they found 'our' box under a foot of dead leaves in the conservancy behind our back fence; ran a cable along the ground 200 feet from our fence to the house; installed a cable box on the house; ran the cable up the wall and into our attic, then connected to cables to our main TV and to the kitchen TV. This took another two hours.

They hooked up what they could and showed us the features. The installer left about 5 p.m. Long day for Seniors! So far, so good, although the kitchen cable box was the 'wrong' box. We exchanged it for the 'right' box on Sunday. (We were near the Xfinity store anyway, and we were able to do the switch ourselves.) Today someone came to bury the cable under the lawn.

Our very own RAVEN has helped me find a good replacement A/V receiver that will mesh with the new, HDMI-only, cable service. That should arrive from Amazon tomorrow. Then our DS will come to install it and a new BluRay that supports closed captioning.

Short of the overly long installation day, we've had nothing but excellent service. (Knock wood!)

I have a Samsung curve tv. It comes with voice recognition as well has hand recognition. Neither work very well. I just use the remote the old-fashioned way.

I have been extremely pleased with my Comcast xfinity service for my Internet. It has not gone down once in all this flooding and mayhem. I am sitting in the rv in the driveway and still have an excellent speedy Internet connection on my wifi that's in the house. I have a portable wifi unit with att cellular that I use when traveling but I have not had to use it out here. I have a great signal through the walls of the house and the rv. Gladl you are happy with your new setup.

I don't even have a TV, why would I want to talk to a remote?

I don't have a voice recognition remote but I do have an Amazon "Echo" and I can have a conversation with "Alexa." She will answer almost any question and will play music for me if I ask.

Nope, no voice recognition remote here either. We have to hire hubby's young IT kid from work each time we do anything with the computer or television (like when we added ROKU). It takes three remotes to run things now that everyone had to add another Cable box last year (and we had to have the cable company connect them). I find three remotes disturbing enough - let alone one I could talk to - especially when all we have is basic cable. And we always buy the televisions with a built-in DVD player because we don't want/need all that extra electronics and cords to contend with. I absolutely HATE cords, and now I HATE having a tray full of remotes....

Apple TV voice recognition works every time. So does Roku.

Ah-hah! Some of you do have voice-recognition devices! I not only enjoy the convenience of speaking instructions, but am amazed by the apps -- like the running stats on ballplayers in a game you're watching. (Sort of like finding movie information from Google, then being offered links to information on the entire cast and crew, but this pops up right on the same screen.) I hope the feature will last!

Our primary TV isn't new -- 2010 -- but it's 'smart enough' to work with these things. Removing the DirecTV boxes and removing the old BluRay replaces those three-component cables with single HDMI cable. When the new receiver arrives, that, too, will have HDMI.

We rarely watch commercial TV. We watch DVD's, stream movies, record PBS programs. Between the Amazon selections and the ones from Comcast, we may not be recording much anymore; it's all available without doing that.

DH reminds me he sometimes records Bear games. (Seldom a need of late!)

I have absolutely no interest in voice controlled anything. I don't really have any good reason, it just isn't something I would use. Perhaps its that since I work in technology, I'm aware of the inevitable inaccuracies and the frustration that would cause me.

Apple didn't innovate voice recognition software, they were very late to the game after numerous others, including Google, had blazed trails many years earlier.

I'm glad you're happy with your new service. No, you're not the last to have a voice recognition TV system, that could be me at some future date since our TV demands are limited. I have a newish TV but DISH with its Sling feature meets our needs.

I do use the voice transcription feature on my Android phone most days, though.