Siri, the Assistant digital of Apple, is becoming each time more prominence in the ecosystem of the company. Between their latest news found the opening of an API for developers of third can integrate it in their applications and also the arrival to them Mac through macOS Sierra.
Thanks to its jump to Mac computers, it is now possible to ask Siri to do certain kinds of actions in our team and that is very comfortable. By misfortune Apple has “forgotten” integrate hears Siri in the version for computers of the wizard function, although thanks to the operating system accessibility options we can replicate this feature without too much complication and Activate Siri by just calling it with our voice.
As configure macOS Sierra to activate Siri with the voice
In the following lines we explain the steps to follow to activate hears Siri in any Mac compatible with the wizard. A process simple, but that consists of several steps that may take us a while.
1. the first thing to do is to access System Preferences from the Apple () in the upper left of the screen.
2. once in the System Preferences screen click on icon of accessibility.
3. inside of accessibility we move through the list of icons on the left until we see the choice Dictation and click on it.
4. now must click on the option Open dictation preferences at the bottom of all window.
5. in the new window click on the enabled option and leave checked the option of improved dictation. In this point is will have to download a file of almost 900 MB that will serve to use the dictated without need of be connected to Internet. The time of download will vary according to our speed of connection to Internet, for to continue must wait to complete the download.
6 go back to menu of accessibility – Dictation and activate the option Activate the dictation tags and write the key word that we use to activate Siri. We can use hears Siri or any other command as Hello Siri or similar, something recommended to avoid to enabling it be activated also in our iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch if we have it close.
7 click on the option command dictation… and in the new window that is displayed, activate the checkbox enable advanced commands.
8. Once activated, click on the button + to add a new command. And we cover the window that appears as follows:
- To the tell: Hello Siri (or the phrase that we have put in the point 6.)
- While it is in use: any application
- Execute: select open items in the Finder and look for Siri.app in the applications folder.
Click on OK and already we can close the window of accessibility. Once these steps, we have configured the option to hear Siri in order to activate the digital assistant without having to click on the icon of the app in the Dock, applications folder, menu bar or using any Launcher such as Spotlight.
Not know if Apple will integrate the function hears Siri in them Mac of form native in any occasion, but using this small trick not will have no type of problem to use the feature with normality and with a performance really good.
