If you’ve ever wanted to use Siri on your Mac, we’ve got the next best thing: how about using Siri on your iPhone 4S to pass along commands to your OS X desktop, launching apps just by giving your command out loud? Now you can, thanks to the latest update to the popular iTeleport VNC app.
Here’s how it works. With the latest iTeleport 5.2 update, you can use Siri dictation within the app itself to pass along commands through the VNC to your Mac laptop or desktop. Within the app, just start up Siri dictation and say “Launch iTunes”, “Launch Evernote” or any other app installed on your Mac. Siri will then transcribe what you’ve said and pass it along to iTeleport, which will automatically launch the app specified as long as it can find it on your machine.
According to reports, iTeleport’s Siri integration works really well. It’s not a cheap ability to graft onto your Mac, though: iTeleport costs $19.99.
Still, very clever. I wonder if we’ll see more apps using Siri’s dictating abilities as a way of integrating the iPhone 4S’s voice control abilities more natively.
[via AppAdvice]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
6 responses to “Want To Use Siri To Control Your Mac? Now You Can!”
opening apps and more can be done with Speech Commands! They work well, and don’t need a 4S.
whats even better is that you can create custom commands based on keyboard shortcuts =)
True, but since Siri can be used over 3G you can launch an app while out. Not possible with Speech Commands.
I can imagine Siri being part of all Mac OS in the near future. I just think it’a logistics, since the process involves internet interaction with apple.
Since using Siri, I find the app learns faster and is more intuitive than the ‘voice commands’ program on the Mac platform for many years.
This will make big inroads for the ‘disabled’ something not talked about, soon we will command all electronicly engineered devices, cars included.