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Siri on Mac: 11 Ways to Get Tasks Done with Your Voice ! Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! Siri on Mac: 11 Ways to Get Tasks Done With Your Voice Written by Akshata Shanbhag Published May 2018. Read the original article here: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/siri-mac-voice-guide/ This ebook is the intellectual property of MakeUseOf. It must only be published in its original form. Using parts or republishing altered parts of this ebook is prohibited without permission from MakeUseOf.com. Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! Table of contents A Few Basics You Should Know About Siri 4 1. Search Your Mac 4 2. Launch Files, Folders, Apps, and Webpages 5 3. Ask for Information 6 About Your Mac and Its Data 6 Based on Location 6 4. Search the Web 7 5. Change System Settings 8 6. Read Aloud and Dictate Text 9 7. Create New Items in Mac Apps 10 8. Call People, Book Tickets, and More 10 9. Post Tweets and Facebook Updates 11 10. Control, Discover, and Identify Music 12 11. Preview, Pin, Copy, and Screenshot Siri Results 13 It’s Time to Enable Siri! 14 Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! We’ve shown you how to set up Siri on your Mac. Now here comes the tricky bit: figuring out what kind of tasks Siri can do for you. There are so many of them! The following roundup will help you on your quest by showing you what you can do with Siri on macOS. While Siri suggests a few starter queries herself, we’ll provide you with more options. But before we get into the tips proper… A Few Basics You Should Know About Siri It’s easy to figure out what to say to Siri once you get a few points straight: 1. You don’t need to memorize commands, because Siri understands and responds to natural language just fine. (But it’s true that Siri is more versatile on iOS devices than on macOS, at least as of macOS High Sierra.) 2. Siri makes it clear when she doesn’t understand what you’re saying, and prompts you with sample queries to help you along. You can even fix her pronunciations if she gets names wrong. 3. If you need to change a setting or set up an app before Siri can process your query, she’ll tell you so and give you the necessary instructions as well. 4. If you know how to use Spotlight, you’re already halfway to properly using Siri. Their commands are similar, but to work with Siri you deliver them with your voice instead of typing them into a box. All you need to remember is that there’s no wrong way to use Siri! Now, let’s move on to the types of tasks you can handle with Siri. 1. Search Your Mac Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! You can ask Siri to bring up everything from photos, documents, and presentations to emails, chats, and screenshots. If you want to refine your search with a time frame, you can throw in criteria like last week, this month, or from [Year]. If you add keywords like the names of files, folders, and albums to your search, Siri will know what you’re talking about. Let’s say you want to search for files that you either sent to or received from a certain person. Siri will bring them right up if you add from [Contact Name] to your query. Specifying a file or document type also works as a filter. So for example, you can ask Siri for photos, screenshots, images, JPGs, or PNGs. All these keywords work, and you’ll get the right set of results in return. You can also ask for, say, images in the Documents folder. 2. Launch Files, Folders, Apps, and Webpages No matter where a file or folder lives in Finder, if you tell Siri to open it, she’ll do it right away. If you want to display the item in the search results instead, use the keywords get or show instead of open. Keywords that match app names can throw Siri for a loop, and in such cases her response is inconsistent. So it’s a good idea to use the keyword file or folder as a prefix or suffix with the file or folder name as appropriate. Launching websites with Siri is also pretty easy and the results are accurate as long as you get the phonetics right. To jump to pages other than the home page of a website, read the entire URL (including the word slash) as it appears on the web. You can leave out the https:// (or http://) bit. For example, if you want to visit MakeUseOf’s About page, your query should sound like this: make use of dot com slash about If the website URL contains a special character like hyphen, you’ll need to mention that along with the other words that make up the URL. Also, if Siri has trouble getting the domain extension right, you might want to spell it out for her. Case in point: the .ly in Bit.ly. Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! 3. Ask for Information Siri is an expert not only at serving up data, but also at delivering all kinds of information. Let’s see what Siri can bring up for you. About Your Mac and Its Data Siri can tell you various essential details about your Mac. Those include the macOS version you’re running, your Mac’s serial number, the processor type, and the RAM capacity. You can also ask Siri to check the amount of free disk space and iCloud storage you have left, but that’s not all. You can get Siri to tell the time, spell words, search for apps in the App Store, find pictures of specific objects, and do basic math and conversions. She uses the pre-installed Mac apps to respond to your queries. Based on Location Siri can respond accurately to queries about: • Movies playing near you • Grocery stores, restaurants, and gas stations near you • The weather anywhere in the world • The location of apartments, railway stations, businesses, etc. Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! • Directions to your destination by various modes of transport • The location of your friends (if you use the Find My Friends feature) All these queries work only if you first tell Siri where you’re located by enabling location services for your Mac. You can do that from System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Location Services. Once you enable the checkboxes for Enable Location Services and Siri & Dictation, you’re all set. Have you synced the Reminders app between your Mac and your iPhone with iCloud? Then you can ask Siri on Mac to remind you to, for example, call your spouse before you board your flight. When you’re at the airport, the location-based reminder will pop up on your phone. 4. Search the Web If your Mac doesn’t contain the answer to your query, Siri will get the most relevant answers for you from the web. Thus, Siri is a bit like Google for your Mac desktop. Here’s a sample of the variety of information you can elicit from her: • How to find a computer’s IP address • Show me photos of Irrawaddy whales from the web • Is Gmail better than Outlook? • What are swim lanes? • Which movies won an Oscar in 2018? • When is George Clooney’s birthday? Copyright © 2018 MakeUseOf. All Rights Reserved ®. ! Siri is great for keeping up with the news, sports, and entertainment. You can ask her for the latest headlines, the schedule for upcoming baseball games, or the results of a particular matchup. Siri can also recommend movies and TV shows for you, and even bring up show times for movie theaters near you. Monitoring Twitter is also easy with Siri. Ask her what’s trending on Twitter, or have her get the latest tweets from a particular account. Want Siri to search Twitter or show your tweets? You got it! Remember that Siri has a fun side to her. She’ll read you a poem, tell knock knock jokes, roll a die for you, speak like a pirate, and even answer existential questions. When you get creative with your questions (and sometimes even when you don’t), she gets creative with her answers. 5. Change System Settings It’s super convenient that you can bring up various System Preferences panels with Siri. If you ask for, say, Battery settings or Trackpad settings, Siri will open the corresponding panel for you. Want to raise or lower the system volume, brightness, or the cursor size? Tell Siri to do that. How about telling Siri to put your Mac to sleep or mute/unmute the speakers? That works too. You can also direct Siri to turn on or turn off system settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Night Shift, Do Not Disturb, VoiceOver, and Zoom. (Inverting colors and switching the display to grayscale also works.) You’ll even get a slider switch to toggle the selected setting right in the results panel. Another trick that Siri has up her sleeve is matching contacts to relationships. Just tell Siri that [Name] is your sister, for instance. Siri will then come back with, “OK, do you want me to remember that [Name] is your sister?” Once you respond with a yes, Siri assigns the relationship sister to the contact [Name] in your Mac’s address book (the Contacts app). Helpfully, Siri knows how to improvise. If you say email my sister to Siri without assigning the relationship to a contact first, Siri will ask you for your sister’s name and proceed from there.
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