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Sep 12, 2016 Siri on macOS Sierra lets us use Apple's helpful AI assistant to locate files using spoken commands. Up until now, Siri's remained a tool for accessing services rather than helping us Cult of Mac. Jan 01, 2020 As of macOS High Sierra, when you're using Apple Music, Siri learns your style and can create custom playlists based on what you like. For example, it can create the perfect playlist for your weekend backyard BBQ or workout. It also answers music trivia like identifying members of a band, or what was the first album an artist put out. With MacOS Sierra, Apple's voice assistant made the leap from the iPhone to the Mac. There are three built-in ways to activate Siri on a Mac, but all require you to click your mouse or the. Jan 25, 2017 In this lesson from our full tutorial on macOS Sierra see how to use and control Siri on your Mac. Learn more at www.TheMacU.com.
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By now we have all started to get to grips with macOS Sierra and all of it's cool new features, especially Siri. There is a way to firstly invoke Siri handsfree just like on the iPhone. This though is not a feature present in Sierra and involves a workaround.
it is important to understand this first step so that the next step that involves shutting down your mac using Siri makes sense.
1. launch system preferences and go to accessibility
2. scroll down in the left hand pane to dictation
3. enable enhanced dictation command
4. in the box below enter the first part of the phrase you wish to use to invoke Siri. If you wish to use hey computer then
just put hey (try not to put hey Siri as otherwise you will accidentally call Siri on nearby iPhones)
5. click the button at the top marked dictation command
6. click the + button and in the first box enter the second part of your command so in this example it would be computer
7. in the next box leave it set to all applications and in the last box choose the option launch application
8. choose Siri.app
9. click done
now when you close system preferences and say the phrase hey computer it will launch siri
Now we can go a step further and use this thinking to shut down the mac.
1. launch system preferences and go to accessibility
2. click on dictation
3. click on dictation command and click the + button to create a new command
4. in the first box enter the phrase shutdown my mac (or whatever phrase you wish to use)
5. in the next box leave it as it is
6. in the last box choose press keyboard shortcut and enter a keyboard shortcut not used by other apps, I chose
control-option-command-p
7. then click done
8. go to system preferences and keyboard then shortcuts
9. click app shortcuts at the left hand side at the bottom and click + to create a new shortcut
10. leave the first box as it is and in the next box named menu item enter 'Shut Down...' (without the quotes)
11. in the last box enter the keyboard shortcut you created in step 6 and then click done
12. close system preferences to enable it to work
now when you say the first part of your command to call Siri (e.g. hey) the computer is put into listen mode then when you say shutdown my mac (or whatever phrase you use) Sierra will then press the keyboard shortcut that shuts down the mac. You should see a dialog box appear asking you if you wish to reopen pages when logging back in, if you do nothing then it will time out when the counter gets to zero, or you can hit enter
there is a way to go further but it involves creating a automator workflow as a service and using applescript to invoke a terminal command to shutdown without asking for confirmation first.
Hope this is of use to anyone.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Siri, which was introduced with the iPhone 4s in 2011, came to the iPad with the iPad 3, the iPod touch in 2012, and to the Apple Watch and Apple TV in 2015.
For those of your that were using Sinus App from Rafael Hannemann to get around the problem on your Mac, (Just to hear the Siri Voice), the wait is finally over. With macOS Sierra, users can finally use full power Siri on their Macs.
Siri will be launching alongside macOS Sierra this fall, and will work on the following machines:
MacBook (Early 2015)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Not only has Siri been added on macOS Sierra, it has been reworked to take advantage of the power and capabilities of the Mac.
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Here’s how to set-up Siri and how to use it:
For starters, you’ll need to enable Siri on your Mac. To do this, launch System Preferences, and click on Siri.
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Once in this menu, be sure to check off ‘Enable Siri’, and we also recommend using a keyboard shortcut for easy access.
After doing this, you can access Siri via your keyboard shortcut, the menu bar, or your dock via a new ‘Siri’ app.
Once you launch Siri, she’ll be listening and waiting for an instruction, you can ask her for most things you’d ask for on your phone, like directions, reading notifications, movie showtimes, sending texts, and so on.
In addition to the things you’ve come to expect Siri to do, Siri can now also do things like change options in System Preferences, and show you Documents. The Document search is deep, so asking to “find the spreadsheet I was working on yesterday” will show spreadsheets you worked on yesterday.
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Several users have noted that they get the not working message when trying to invoke Siri. “Sorry, there’s something wrong. Can you please try that again?”. Nine out of ten times this happens because of a microphone setting. Please check your mic input on your Siri setting and make sure that it is pointing to internal microphone as opposed to external microphone. That will take care of this issue.
Privacy and Other Concerns with Siri
OS X Mavericks introduced Enhanced Dictation, a feature that allowed Mac and Macbook users to dictate speech offline. This meant that all phrases were stored locally in the Mac, and the Mac was able to respond intelligently. With Siri, your speech is sent to Apple’s server, meaning you will need to be online in order to use Siri. While this is perfectly normal for virtual assistants, and Apple has a stronger stance on privacy than any other tech company, you can easily disable Siri on your Mac by going into System Preferences, go to “Siri” and un-checking “Enable Siri” box from earlier. Siri is only activated when you choose to activate it, it is entirely off otherwise.
Siri for Mac is launching alongside macOS Sierra this fall, but you can try it out now with the Public Beta. To learn more about the public beta, read out guide to installing betas.
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