In the previous post, I created a simple voice commands file and registered it with the WP OS.
My command was “Find {huntTypes} Hunts”.
huntTypes is a phrase list that was hardcoded in the VCD file with the following values: “New”, “Nearby” and “My”.

This means the user can say “Play The Hunt, Find New Hunts”.
I don’t really want to maintain this phrase list in the VCD file, instead I want to call a web service and get a list of types that my backend search can handle and update the phrase list.

It’s very simple to update the phrase list, you simply need to get the command set that includes the phrase list you want to update and call UpdatePhraseListAsync.

private void AddToPhraseList()
{
    var vcs = VoiceCommandService.InstalledCommandSets["USEnglish"];
    vcs.UpdatePhraseListAsync("huntTypes", new[] {"New", "Nearby", "My", "San Francisco", "New York"});
}

Now when the user says “Play The Hunt, Find San Francisco Hunts” the query string will include the added phrase list item

[0]: {[voiceCommandName, findHunts]}
[1]: {[reco, Play The Hunt Find San Francisco Hunts]}
[2]: {[huntTypes, San Francisco]}

Of course, in the real app I would get the list of phrases from some other source, instead of hardcoding it like I did in this sample.