Creating Shortcuts That Accept Voice Input

[@replayit]

Wow! It was right in front of me the whole time. I'm sure I'm not the only person who tried to get this to work with the Dictate Text action.

[@hastingb]

Ever since I started using voice shortcuts Siri refers to me as the Kwisatz Haderach. The edge of sarcasm in her response has me concerned.

[@amityadav18]

How to start using it with voice command. Not working in my iphone.

[@TheGamingWilds]

This was so helpful. Thanks so much!

[@hujth6]

Hey great video thanks. I tried to do this for hands free note taking while driving. And I had problems with creating or appending to note when the iPhone was locked. Is there a way to bypass iPhone lock in that?

[@macmost]

Changing notes while locked (or doing much of anything while locked) would be a major security issue, so no.

[@Papa-hs6yg]

Tried it works fine no need for cut and paste, shortcuts, etc, just use voice control in numbers

[@donmoemu]

WOW! That just opened some doors. Thank you Gary

[@Papa-hs6yg]

using voice control in accessibility and "press return key" I can add rows and content to tables in Notes. Maybe use in Numbers, or table in Notes then cut and paste to Numbers?

[@mehmd1913]

Very interesting. In numbers it put date and time in notes it did not. What confuses me are the variables and what they mean and where to use/place them in the short cut. Please do a video run down of the various shortcuts and their use. This could open a huge door for me and others.

[@random_acorn]

Is there a way to immediately add value? Like can I say “ add value 10” and Shortcuts just adds them, so I don’t have to wait for Siri to ask me what I want in the second prompt?

[@macmost]

Not sure what you mean.

[@random_acorn]

@@macmost Well you say “add to voice note” and then you wait for siri to ask you “what to add ?” and then you say “something”. So it’s a 2 step process. Is there a way to just say “add to voice note something” and siri adds “something” right away. So i’d like to extract the value right away.

[@macmost]

@@random_acorn No, there's no way to incorporate it into the initial Siri command before the Shortcut is triggered.

[@hosmanadam]

Thanks! Is there any way to skip the back-and-forth? I'm thinking about providing the text as a parameter to the command (the shortcut name) instead of input after the separate prompt. So I would say something like "Add to note the content" which would append "the content" to the note. This is how the Reminders app works, so you can say "Remind me to buy fruit" and it will create a reminder "Buy fruit".

[@macmost]

I don't think you can get input from Siri like that.

[@hosmanadam]

@@macmost Bummer. Thank you!

[@anametoremember13]

Did you ever find a way to do that? That's exactly what I was hoping to do!

[@simon_ks]

same, looking for an option to do that!

[@chriskaprys]

Great to know this is possible. I drive for work, so the more things I can do hands-free the better. Hoping I can find a way to use Siri to select an option from a notification pull-down menu (e.g. when an alarm goes off, you can pull down the notification and select "stop" - but using Siri along the lines of "Hey Siri, from notification select stop").

[@macmost]

You can't interact with the Notification directly. So think about the service that is triggering the notification instead.

[@aberdeenmeadows]

Huge thank you. I have actually used this to create a shortcut called "Add to Keep Track" because for the past year or so, I have had difficulty in keeping up with things such as scarf, hat, gloves, or tech like my fb glasses or even a GoPro camera or two. The shortcut you created is exactly what I needed to create a note that keeps up where I put things. I even added a date and time so that it lets me know when I added the item to the note. So now, I can say "Face Book glasses left in car" or "FB glasses in closet" and it's going to really help when I no longer need my scarf, hat and gloves - I can now put them away and add that to my note. I would have never figured this out on my own! Since I have set this up, it has actually helped me! It's true that I could have just used reminders, but I like appending a note better. Again, thank you! Extremely helpful!

[@L0s0studio]

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[@waldBestMusics]

Great, is the shortcut defined in Serie or in another program?

[@davecoates2308]

Thank you :) works a charm!

[@davehugstrees]

Great video! Already can think of some shortcuts I’m going to set up with this mind.

[@WikiPal]

You are really great! Thanks. I would like to create a shortcut that pass my dictation of grocery items to a reminder I use for shopping groceries, and I was able but... alas! It creates a single voice and I want it split in different lines...

[@macmost]

You don't need a Shortcut for that. You can just ask Siri natively.

[@WikiPal]

@@macmost Thanks, the "shopping" list is on reminders) I tried but if I say to Siri "Add to shopping list, potatoes, cheese, eggs, milk, etc." It adds all I dictated in ONE line, and I would like to have multiple lines, one for each item

[@macmost]

@@WikiPal Just do it one at a time. I don't see any other way to do it that wouldn't require you basically building your own app or complex shortcut.

[@kevinleighuk]

Brilliant! Now if I could just understand the programming mode better!

[@ocmacman17]

Tried this on my iphone 14 pro max but don't have the menu sections you have. I wonder if you sent me the shortcut if it would work on iphone 14 pro max. Also I didn't have a menu selection item to "filter"

[@macmost]

Make sure you have the right Shortcut actions selected. The names can be tricky sometimes. Look for them by app.

[@cameronball3998]

this is great, i was using a read text, then dictate text command chain, but the ask for input works much more simply. i thought my bug has to do with the way i set it up before with dictate, but it also is present with the ask for input command. i can’t figure it out, but siri just asks for my input in an infinite loop. no idea why. the same shortcut as you have does the same bug on my device.

[@chrisdommert8654]

This is excellent, thank you Gary! Is there a way to make Siri listen for longer, or a follow on prompt for "are you done?" or something along those lines? I have been looking for something like this for a long time to capture my thoughts while I'm driving. I guess I think too slowly and the Siri dictation closes before I have finished my thought, much less multiple thoughts. Ideally, I would like to set up a version of this for an extended session of dictating my thoughts into the verbal note. Thanks!

[@macmost]

Use the Voice Memos app for recording your thoughts. Or, if you really need a transcription app, there are a few good third-party ones (like Otter.ai) that will do it.

[@acm997]

If you check the options in settings>accessibility you might find something that helps. I know there’s options in there, for example, for people who might have a hand tremor and so you set it to disregard multiple button presses. There might be an option to allow Siri to listen for longer

[@Eris-sp6yt]

Very nice thanks! I'm new to mac and having issues with my voice driven shortcuts you might have some answer to my problem. I have two shortcuts name it A and B. Each shortcut opens a webpage with different URLs of course. If I run manually the shortcut/workflow, works perfectly A opens A_URL, B opens B_URL, but if I call it with voice command both opens A_URL. Shortcut names completely different so Siri can definitely recognise. Do you have idea? Should I use some variable? I just use the "Get Specified URLs" + "Display Web Pages" in my workflow.

[@macmost]

Not sure why that would be the case. Are you sure that it is triggering the right Shortcut? Maybe debug by having the Shortcut also throw up a notification or alert of some kind.

[@Eris-sp6yt]

@@macmost Thanks, will do that!

[@scottlevine8710]

Gary...Having TWO issues with this. #1 is that Siri is NOT announcing...just displaying to screen all text. #2 Siri is waiting until I "ask for" a second phrase. So I have to say my phrase twice. I think this must be a Siri issue as it happens whether I use Ask For or Dictated. Any advice greatly appreciated.

[@macmost]

Not sure why it is doing that for you. Check your Siri settings and experiment.

[@scottlevine8710]

@@macmost finally figured it out. I have a landline phone system that bluetooth connects to my iPhone. When I was in my office, it "STOLE" the mic and speaker functions. Realized this when everything worked when I left the office!! ....DUHHH!!!!

[@charliepe2701]

that is awesome man. Thank you so much. And thanks to Apple

[@PaulM_aka_4c21]

Excellent video !

[@josklijnhout1660]

Hi, great video. I have a challenge, i have ChatGPT on a shortcut connected to Siri, and it works great, but what i would like is to put the answers of chatgpt in an note. Or word or.. in others words, do you think it is possible if siri open the shortcut ( Siri got) you can make an flow for notes from the answers of chatgpt? For example you can ask to make an offer and prepare it in notes.

[@macmost]

I think you probably could. But unless you are pounding ChatGPT with questions all the time, I don't know if it would be any better than doing it manually. You know if you use the OpenAI website it saves all of your conversations and you can easily go back to them.

[@josklijnhout1660]

@@macmost Hi, yes i know, but when iam in the car and i have some ideas, or want chatgpt to prepare an offer, i want to ask "it" to put it in a note after. or something like that.

[@marke2401]

Thank you Gary!!!!!!!

[@jaimusic1131]

Does it work in HomePod also

[@macmost]

Yes. Of course it must be a Shortcut that the HomePod can run.

[@MRrwmac]

That’s gonna be great! If I can make it work, I’m gonna try and have it open an app and sign in for me. Do you know how to make it do all that in one voice command?

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! I actually thought it was very cool! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

[@tomlwatson]

Thanks for this. I was able to replicate the short cut on my Mac. Using Siri on the Mac it works as you showed. But, when I invoke the short cut from my iPhone Siri asks: "What's the note?" Am I doing something wrong?

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

Some here.

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

Test the shortcut in the iPhone and see if it receive text. If so then make sure Siri find the correct shortcut

[@arizona5253]

Could I create a shortcut that would take the sales tax field from an invoice template in numbers and record that to another sheet/table called "tax total"

[@macmost]

I suppose. Be easier to copy and paste it than to put the effort into scripting something like that though.

[@harshilmodi4006]

Wow really helpful

[@sudhid8765]

Hi there if I want to dictate for more than 30mins how? I am hardly not able to capture the text I mean Siri 15sec max so how to dictate for 30mins and translate to text? Pls help on this

[@macmost]

Use Voice Control dictation. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/hojbZ2d-r9N5n7c

[@chaolan77]

Gary, any idea how to slow down Siri and add pauses between a question and options to choose ? I have a Shortcut for translation and Siri rattles off without pausing and it’s hard to hear. I tried adding a wait command for 1 or 2 secs but it doesn’t make any difference. I’m one of these people who slows down KZbin videos to .75 or .5% to listen to them. 😅😢

[@macmost]

Yes. You asked on my site and I responded there.

[@chaolan77]

@@macmost I did not

[@macmost]

@@chaolan77 I apologize. Someone must have asked almost the same question on the same day. My suggestion was to look at using System Settings/Preferences, Accessibility, Spoken Content, Speaking Rate. See if that helps.

[@kulalranjith]

Hi bro how to change shortcut -> speech text audio tone to female from male voice ?

[@macmost]

Go to System Settings, Accessibility, Voice Over.

[@juanvera4122]

Can you PLEASE do a shortcut that will allow me to jump from one page to another using shortcuts? I saw a guy do this from the first page of his iPad. Can’t figure this out.

[@juanvera4122]

I want to jump from my social, tv apps, and creative apps page.

[@macmost]

Not sure what you are trying to do here. Go from one page of your Home Screen to another? You already can do that with a simple swipe. Why would you need a Shortcut to do that?

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

@@macmost He needs this to work for the iPad, currently it does not work

[@homemovies751]

I've been fighting with Voice Control (and maybe Siri) with Mac Monterey using a Date Picker. The frustration is that although I can use VC to move between fields, I cannot use VC or Siri to enter a selected month/day/year (textual date picker). One of the options for new Commands in VC/Siri is to link to a Shortcut which I did which generated numbers from spoken text and was supposed to type in the number to the selected month/day/year but it doesn't work (paste doesn't work I assume because the date values cannot be pasted either, only typed). Have you come up with a way to enter data into date pickers with VC or Siri or Shortcuts?

[@macmost]

I haven't tried that. Can you tell me the specific "date picker" you are trying to use?

[@homemovies751]

@@macmost It’s the standard MacOS textual date picker (no time) with a stepper (NSDatePicker). It’s the “old” kind that does not have a popup calendar overlay. Just 3 fields - Month / Day / Year and a stepper. Changes to any of these three can be made with by selecting one of them and entering numbers with the keyboard, increasing/decreasing values via up/down arrow keys or the stepper (but no pasting). Even with VC “Show Numbers” the control does not have a “number”. I have hundreds of scanned photos that I want to change the create date to the date stamped on the photos by my cameras (scanned photos only have the date the they were produced). Dealing with popup calendars and changing years (especially) for randomly positioned photos is difficult. Thought VC would make the process easier and smooth. Don’t think it’s possible with VC.

[@macmost]

@@homemovies751 Yes, but what specific date picker. In other words, give me steps to recreate so I can try to help: Go to app X, do Y, click on Z, etc. If Show Numbers doesn't have a number for it, then it may not be possible.

[@homemovies751]

@@macmost Thanks for your interest but I now think this is beating a dead horse. There's no Mac app I know of that uses this picker anymore, and I've spent hours looking into this, creating shortcuts, automator workflows, etc. The app that I tried from the App Store and is rarely bought. However, I did find and created a custom panel that I've put 31 buttons to enter days and months along with 10 buttons for years that will serve my purpose. Thanks again for your interest.

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@Am-caloriferul-dat-la-maxim]

I want to use this option to use it with google maps to search a plece how do i do?

[@macmost]

The Google Maps app developers would need to add Shortcuts functions to their app first.

can you help create shortcut like...play spotify without any questions?

[@macmost]

If Spotify has Shortcuts actions. I don't think it does.

[@fouzia2748]

Thanks a lot sir!🇮🇳

[@zebonautsmith1541]

Bring it to a whole new level. Skip Siri; and create voice control commands to open shortcuts. So you could say "whats the high temperature today" and you shorcut runs the wind speed shortcut which speaks the wind speed" I have 100 of these and can without any key word ask numerous commands and questions. It's spooky; feels like I'm chatting with HAL9000

[@sundaynightdrunk]

But how? I don't bother because of the Siri interaction layer.

[@zebonautsmith1541]

@@sundaynightdrunk Accessibility>Voice Control

[@sundaynightdrunk]

@@zebonautsmith1541 Oh, I see. Not ideal. Thanks though.

[@aalcabsh]

Sir i got a question please , i by mistake tap the ❌ sign in “numbers” app at my macbook , and when i open it again i found everything has gone 💔 No my boos will kick my ass if i didn’t get those infos back, any tips please?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@macmost]

After clicking X, did it prompt you to save? If not, then it saved by default. Launch Numbers, go to File, Open Recent and you should find it there.

[@colinbiddle2649]

I have tried this and it still prompts with speech to text. Making me have to type when I want it to be hands free

[@macmost]

Are you initiating the Shortcut using Siri?

[@PG4L_Podcast]

I don’t this method works any more. I just tried it twice.

[@macmost]

It still works. But it can be tricky to get it all right if you haven't used Shortcuts before.

[@goldenghostgod5333]

I used this video to create shortcuts and every short cut I created rewrote itself and do no of the stuff I had them doing. I had a short cut that took screenshots and when I tried to use it the other day it called my mom. So yeah you can’t trust Siri short cuts, Apple messes with the codes too often.

[@realjay247]

Another confusing short cuts video 🤷‍♂️

[@DrJohnPollard]

Too much work.

[@FrenchieRI1]

God, I hate Apple and iPhones.

[@malikau917]

Don’t spread hate