![]() Much like with ChatGPT, the answers aren’t always right, but they usually are, and I’ve found that the ability to ask my phone complex questions and get reasonable answers back is incredibly useful as long as I keep the imperfections of GPT-3 in mind. Siri will then, after a delay, display the answer and read it out loud. To use the shortcut, say “Hey Siri”, then “GPT Mode” (or whatever you renamed the shortcut to), then say whatever you want to ask GPT-3. Once you’ve installed the shortcut onto your phone and pasted your OpenAI API key into it, it’s ready to use! You can use it under the name I gave it (“GPT Mode”) or rename it to your taste, to anything that doesn’t conflict with Siri’s existing commands. Right now, OpenAI is offering three months of API credits for free when you sign up for an account, and they don’t charge much once you run out of your free credits. The shortcut itself is free to use you’ll just need to create an OpenAI account here, create an OpenAI API key and paste it into the text field in the shortcut that says “Replace this with your OpenAI API key!” You can see more detailed instructions for how to do this in this article explaining how to use a similar shortcut. You can download the Siri shortcut here to add it to your phone (and you can see the original shortcut that I modified it from here). With those two fixes, the shortcut started working very seamlessly – I can now tell my phone “Hey Siri, GPT Mode”, then a question, and quickly get a response from GPT-3 read back to me by Siri. The stray leading question marks were an easier fix – I just modified an existing shortcut with a step that strips them out. Make sure you turn on “Prefer Spoken Responses” if you want to use this shortcut and have Siri read the answers out loud to you! I tried fixing the first issue by making a shortcut that included steps to explicitly read the answer out loud, but it turned out that a far simpler solution was just to change Siri’s settings in Settings->Accessibility->Siri->Spoken Responses to “Prefer Spoken Responses”: The answers often started with a stray question mark, which was distracting when Siri did read the answer out loud, starting with “Question mark…”. ![]() Siri wouldn’t always read the answers out loud.It also turned out that several people have written Siri shortcuts to interface with GPT-3, but I had a couple of issues with them when I tried them out: It turned out that while the ChatGPT API isn’t officially available yet to pose questions to programmatically, the recent GPT-3 model is, and it’s also very powerful. This week, after a few too many unsatisfying Siri answers in a row, I started to wonder if it would be possible to solve the problem once and for all by querying ChatGPT directly through Siri. Like many others, I’ve been incredibly impressed with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how far language models have come since I was working on natural language processing research a few years ago.īut, also like many others, I’ve been regularly frustrated with Apple’s Siri and how it often fails to give useful answers to even the most basic of questions. The new version seems to do better on some questions but worse on others. Shortcuts app is now available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad running the new OS.Note: it’s now possible to talk to a newer OpenAI model (gpt-3.5-turbo) through Siri – if you want to use the newer, and much cheaper, version, see my updated post here. This tutorial will cover steps on how to create your text to voice app on Mac running macOS Monterey. ![]() How to create your "Text to voice" app? This can also serve as a great accessibility option because you can easily hear what’s on your screen. For example, build a “Surf Time” shortcut that grabs the surf report, gives an ETA to the beach, and launches your surf music playlist.Īfter messing with the app exploring possible options, I’ve come across voice - or spoken audio.Īfter a few trials and errors, I’ve made a simple Shortcut that takes text as input and outputs Siri generated voiceover audio file on your device! Plus, it’s fast!!! The Shortcuts app lets you create shortcuts with multiple steps. If you haven’t heard about shortcuts before, here's what Apple says "What’s a shortcut?" A shortcut is a quick way to get one or more tasks done with your apps. After checking out what’s new in the recent release of macOS Monterey, I came across Shortcuts - an app previously available only on iOS devices. ![]() Apple is extending support for Shortcuts to desktops.
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