Start Google Action with 'Play'

#1

Hi all

I’ve built an app using Jovo for Alexa and Google. I’ve configured the Alexa skill to start with play, for example “Alexa play my radio station.”

I want to do the same on google so you’d say “hey google, play my radio station.”

I seem to only be able to launch my app using “hey google talk to my radio station,” but that doesn’t seem to be great for a radio station whereby the radio listener would want their speaker to ‘play’ something.

Thanks, Dan

#2

As far as I know, this isn’t possible.

It’s possible to implement the actions.intent.PLAY_GAME implicit invocation, but that’s only for games right now, no “play music” kind of invocation, as far as I can see.

Here’s more info:

https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/df-asdk/discovery/implicit

https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/df-asdk/discovery/built-in-intents