It looks like Apple is working on bringing Siri to Mac OS X. A 92-page patent application for an “Intelligent digital assistant in a desktop environment” describes a technology that goes much further than Mac’s current voice dictation feature.
AppleInsider describes it like this:
Like the current iteration of Siri, limited to iOS, Apple’s desktop version is able to process natural speech and text input to perform actions like completing tasks, inputting and retrieving data, conducting searches and more. Further, the filing points out that commands are to be taken in context based on deduced user intent. In other words, Siri for desktop will use speech recognition to decipher and remembering contextual clues.
It isn’t known whether Apple plans to include Siri in the upcoming release of OS X 10.10 Yosemite, betas of the OS don’t have this feature. But we do know that Apple has been interested in bringing a personal assistant to the desktop for a long time. The video below was created in 1987 and is what former Apple Computer CEO John Sculley envisioned computers would be like in 2011.
