Is there a way to voice control the above receiver's volume without a Yamaha plugin? If so can you guide me to a starting point?

Maybe try Eventghost (http://www.eventghost.org/) with this plugin: https://github.com/BirdAPI/yamaha-network-receivers

birdapi seems active on the Eventghost forum if you need help with it, or you can try to contact them in their github space.

Quote from: nime5ter on September 17, 2014, 06:12:00 PM
Maybe try Eventghost (http://www.eventghost.org/) with this plugin: https://github.com/BirdAPI/yamaha-network-receivers

birdapi seems active on the Eventghost forum if you need help with it, or you can try to contact them in their github space.

Thanks. I already use EventGhost and have been playing with the above plugin. However, with EG and the plugin, is there a way to use VC to apply voice control?

Yes. Look in the wiki.