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Upper right-hand side of the macOS desktop (it actually slides in from offscreen -- a nice touch). As soon as you hit that button, Siri is listening, waiting for you to ask a question.Sitting right next to Siri is Spotlight, which last year got a significant update. It's a universal search that can pore over you Mac, the Web, iTunes, the App Store, maps. So while Microsoft's Cortana combines universal search with the digital assistant, Apple's drawn a line between the two -- sort of. Spotlight can perform many of the same searches as Siri. However, if you type a question into Spotlight, it may launch Siri. A trigger word appears to be "What's."I really don't know why Apple chose to keep Spotlight and Siri separate, but they may reconsider in future versions of macOS.Battle of the assistantsIt's early days for Siri on the desktop, but I'm already impressed with its performance and intelligence -- especially as it compares to Microsoft's Cortana. Mashable Light Speed To test the two voice assistants, I first closed my office door. I wanted to speak in a normal voice and didn't want to attract any annoyed stares.Both Siri on macOS and Cortana start by asking you to open up your privacy settings a bit. They simply do their jobs better if they know where you are. So I followed Siri's instructions and turned on location services on the macOS. Here's something else Siri on macOS and Cortana have in common: Both can tap into your system to, for example, find files and make system-level adjustments, but they're both pretty inconsistent. Siri on macOS, obviously, is still a work in progress, so take these criticisms with a grain of salt. Even so, I suspect that there will, at least for some time, be limits to what Siri can do even after the forma macOS launch, especially as long as Spotlight survives.When I asked Siri to "increase my screen brightness," it opened a System Preferences: Brightness slider box within Siri and told me "I made the screen a little brighter."Impressive.When I asked Cortana the same question, it opened a Bing search result inside the Cortana box, which told me how to adjust screen brightness, but didn't do it for me.On the other hand, when I told Cortana to turn off my Wi-Fi, it turned it off, it returned a message of "Wi-Fi is now off" and showed the setting to confirm. On the left is how Cortana handles voice commands for turning on and off Wi-Fi. On the right is how Siri does it. When you turn off Wi-Fi (networking), you basically disable Siri. Credit: APPLE/MICROSOFT/COMPOSITE/MASHABLE Siri can turn off Wi-Fi, too, but doing so also renders Siri for macOS useless. Unlike Cortana, it needs an Internet connection to work, which means once Siri on macOS has turned it off, you can't use it to turn Wi-Fi back on. Even if you turn off network connectivity, Cortana will still be able to search your system.Siri and

How does Google voice search work?Voice search is a function on many devices that allow users to speak into their device and have it return results. This can be done through the Google app, which is available on both Android and iOS devices, as well as the Google Home product. It uses Google Assistant to return voice search results. How do I turn on voice search using Google settings? Google Voice Search SettingsTo access Google voice search on your mobile device open the Google app and go to Settings. Select Voice Search and make sure that the “Google App” option is checked. You can also toggle whether or not you want Google to speak back to you by selecting the “Respond to ‘ Hey Google’ with” option.Google voice search settings quick guideOpen a web browser and go to google.com.Sign in to your account that you want the voice search activated on if it is not already open on your mobile device or computer.In the upper-right corner, tap More settings.Under “Search” tap Voice.Ensure that On is showing next to Google Assistant, then turn the switch on or off for Let Google access my voice & speech activity. This will allow Google to access all of your activity since you turned on the computer or mobile device and use it to give more accurate voice search results.You can also turn on or off the following:Microphone: Tap this to see which apps have access to your microphone and to revoke microphone access for any app you no longer want to have access to.Notifications: By default, you will get a notification on your device when the Google Assistant responds to a voice search. You can disable these notifications here.Continued Conversation: This allows you to have multiple questions and answers with the Google Assistant without having to say “Hey Google” each time.7. Tap Save.How voice search is the future of mobile searchThere are many reasons why voice search is the future of mobile search here are some of the top reasons.Voice searches useless data.Voice searches typically return results faster than typing them into the search bar or mobile browser.You can ask more complicated questions, like How do you make chocolate chip cookies?It is easier, especially if you are driving and want to use voice commands to send messages on your phone or play music.We all get lazy sometimes and voice search allows us to keep

Hello,After updating my iPhone 12 to iOS 16.2, Voice Control likes to turn itself off around once a day, usually during the night when I rely on at most. You can ask Siri to turn Voice Control ON but it will be unresponsive. The Voice Control indicator can either be blue or gray and be unresponsive. Usually when I wake the phone up I will notice that Voice control is turned off (no icon in the top left).But, last night, I was able to capture two different notifications it gives before turning off by itself. (Provided screenshots)The microphone is being used by another application. Voice Control will try again in a few moments.The microphone is already being used by another application. Voice Control will quit.This happens even with No apps open (even an app switcher) and Background App Refresh turned OFF.So that means that it’s the iOS software itself.Rebooting, Force Restart and Shutting Down iPhone… has no effect and doesn’t help fix the issue.This Never happened in all versions of iOS 15 and iOS 16 until the latest update 16.2.I use English Canada but I have just downloaded English US to see if switching to that language will make it work when it’s not working. So we’ll see how that goes.I can’t leave it on English US because my 65 Custom Commands don’t work because they were created with English Canada. ( apparently Apple believes they are incomparable languages )I can’t move from the shoulders down, and I use Voice Control for everything since it’s so much faster than using Switch Control with Sip N Puff. But use Switch Control as a backup. Been using both accessibility features since they were created.