How To Activate Hands-Free “Hey Siri” in macOS Sierra

How To Enable Hands-Free “Hey Siri” in macOS Sierra.

Easy To Follow Tutorial on How To Activate “Hey Siri” Voice Command in macOS Sierra.

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In this episode, How To Enable Hands-Free "Hey Siri" command on macOS Sierra.

Straight to a demo. Sooooo Let’s Get Started.

Let’s take care of some basic stuff.

Firstly, it should be noted that in previous versions of OS X, Dictation & Speech had it’s own dedicated Icon. In macOS Sierra, Dictation has moved to a Tab button in Keyboard and Speech has moved to an option in Accessibility, has shown.

Secondly, make sure that Siri is enabled, by launching System Preferences and click the Siri icon and check the box shown here.

Lastly, and optionally, enable “Use ambient noise reduction” for your mic, by clicking on the Sound icon, then the Input Tab, as shown here. Basically this cuts down on background noise, which I found useful when using Siri.

Continuing on, to enable hands-free Siri, we first need to enable Dictation, click on the Keyboard icon and then click the Dictation Tab, then turn On Dictation and also check the box to Use Enhanced Dictation, which will basically download a 1.2 Gig file for offline use.

Next, while still in System Preferences, click the Accessibility icon and select Dictation.

Optionally check the box here to play a sound when command is recognized.

Now type the command that you would like to use to enable Dictation, some example are Hi, Hey and Yo, basically anything you like. I’ll use “Yo”

Next, to activate Siri, click the Dictation Commands button shown here.

Now, click the box shown here to Enable advanced commands.

Next, click the plus button shown here and where it shows “When I say”, enter a command to activate Siri, like, Dude, Siri and Mac. I’ll choose Mac.

Leave “While Using”, to it’s default of Any Application.

For “Perform”, click on the dropdown list and choose “Open Finder Items…” and navigate to the Applications Folder and select Siri.

Finally, click on the Done button.

You can now close the Accessibility window, and simply say “Yo Mac” to activate hands-free Siri.

And that’s all there is to it.

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