Your Mac Has Something Better Than Siri: It Can Write For You

Your Mac has dictation and screen-reading built-in, with the same voices (and many more) that you’re used to from Siri. Google, Wikipedia, and the calculator are only a keystroke away in Spotlight. Yet there’s still no Siri for Mac.

There is, however, a bit of artificial intelligence in your Mac. Open a new text document, in TextEdit or your favorite plain text writing app. Or possibly make a new email. Now, press the esc key on your keyboard. Tap enter, then press space. Now tap esc again. Rinse, repeat. Add punctuation as needed.

And, voila, your Mac has just written for you. Automagically.

My Mac has a penchant for saying it wants to “have a good day” or “be a good day”. Which is nice.

And so we should let my MacBook Air have the closing words. It said:

I love you so much fun and I was just a little bit of a new one is the best thing ever is when you have to be a good day.

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Yes, this is just the default OS X spellcheck’s word suggest, which you can use to help you complete a word you’re unsure how to spell. And it apparently learns from what you type—and since I close most emails with “Have a good day!”, I guess it learned that phrase from me. Anyhow. Still a fun trick.

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