It’s unknown why Apple feels it’s necessary to test out the intelligent assistant for several years before its implementation in a full-fledged computer operating system, but it seems that Siri will finally be integrated in the next version of the OS X. After four years of testing, it would seem that Siri will finally be added with full capability on the upcoming OS X 10.12, that’s due to be released in about seven months from now.
Judging from what we have learned so far about the PC version of Siri, it won’t be a feature that comes enabled from the very start. Instead, users will have to enable in in the system. This can be done either via its native icon next to the Spotlight Search and Notification Center in the menu bar, or directly from the keyboard via an activation shortcut.
Naturally, Siri will be fully customizable through the system preferences, just as it is on the mobile platform operating system and will also make its appearance through the colorful voice soundwaves in a small window that will stay on the top-right of the screen (probably customizable to either change position or not even show).
And computer Siri will pretty much act just like its mobile version. As long as you have a microphone plugged in or you’re using your inbuilt microphone on Macbooks, you’ll be able to call out Siri just the way you do on your phone, for example. By simply saying “Hey Siri”, the voice assistant will be activated automatically and you can skip right ahead to starting to use it.
The Siri integration is part of the upcoming new version of the Apple Mac operating system, so far code named Fuji, which may be subject to change if the company decides on a different OS name. The OS X 10.12 ‘Fuji’ isn’t exactly a full-fledged operating system, but instead only comes to bring several changes to the system, as well as minor user interface tweaks across core system application windows.
However, at this point there’s not much known regarding the Apple Mac OS X 10.12. Other than the obvious fact that it won’t be a major overhaul or a brand new iteration of the operating system just like the OS X Yosemite was, and some rather generic pieces of information, Apple has not yet released much on the topic so far.
However, more is expected to be showcased at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference – also known as WWDC – later this year, in June 2016, mere months before the operating system’s release.
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