Building a Voice-Control Layer for Local Movie Playback on Windows

For a long time, watching local movies on a Windows PC has been technically easy, but not always comfortable. If your PC is connected to a TV or monitor and you are watching from bed, a sofa, or across the room, simple actions can become surprisingly annoying: pause the movie, skip forward, go back, start the next movie, manage subtitles, or shut everything down at the end of the night. Most of these actions are easy if you are sitting at the keyboard. They are much less convenient when the PC i