How often do you use Siri on your MBP?

[kis]

The same number of times I've used it on my iPhone or iPad Pro: zero. I have a couple of Amazon Echos, though, which work like a charm. I'm not generally opposed to voice assistants, it's just that Siri is pretty lousy.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Personally I already have one woman (she's lovely) in my life who only pretends to listen to most of what I say and when she does misinterprets 99% of it anyway. Who needs another?

Yes, but, unlike Siri, I'm guessing there are other reasons to keep her around

 

[ascender]

Never.... until reading this thread. Have tried a couple of things and its a lot better than I remember it. I can see with the button on the touchbar how I might start using it to control iTunes for example when working. Definitely quicker than browsing for the next album.

 

[janitor3]

Never used Siri on my iPhone, so won't be using it on my mbp.

 

[skids929]

I don't know why Apple just wouldn't look at the adoption/usage of Siri on in their mobile devices and decide whether it was worth it to program it in to Mac OS. I personally don't know anyone who uses Siri on their phone, so I imagine it's not as widely used as Apple thinks.

 

[TMRJIJ]

I like that they added the feature. Plus Siri seems to understand my American/Indian accent.
However I never could find a way to bring it to normal use. It's something that I remind myself that it's there in the menu bar.
It would be better if 'Hey Siri' was available because I tend to connect my MBP to numerous TVs, monitors, and projectors at my University.

 

[Jessica Lares]

I don't know why Apple just wouldn't look at the adoption/usage of Siri on in their mobile devices and decide whether it was worth it to program it in to Mac OS. I personally don't know anyone who uses Siri on their phone, so I imagine it's not as widely used as Apple thinks.

Recently I saw a post on The Verge about how people don't like to use their personal assistants in public because it feels weird, but people do use it.

I tried it once on my Mac (use it constantly on iOS), but it was too slow on my 2010 machine, which is why I turned it off. BTW... It'll still run idle in the background and take up some memory - Activity Monitor is telling me 4.2 MB, but CPU usage isn't more than 0.1%. Notification Center is taking up more and I never use that either.

Apparently this works to get "Hey Siri" to work on the Mac:

http://www.macworld.com/article/309...ey-siri-to-your-mac-running-macos-sierra.html