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The advanced technologies propelling the latest generation of chatbots have been gaining momentum over the years, revolutionising our world. With the launch of ChatGPT, a competitive scramble amongst the brightest minds has begun in Silicon Valley, each looking to break new ground in what chatbots can do. Despite the existence of voice assistants like Siri, they don't quite measure up to the capabilities of ChatGPT. By merging the best aspects of both, we can significantly enhance Siri's intelligence and elevate the potential of chatbots. Incorporating ChatGPT into Siri offers an unparalleled way to interact with and enhance our devices. This integration offers users access to three powerful features within Siri: ChatGPT's impressive intelligence, DALL·E's innovative creativity, and Whisper's precise transformation of audio into text. This combination of capabilities promises an exceptionally advanced chatbot experience.

Integrating ChatGPT with Siri is fairly straightforward. However, it requires certain specific prerequisites and links for seamless functioning.

To initiate, first download the Apple Shortcuts app followed by the Chatty shortcut. Feel free to rename the shortcut to a title of your preference. However, before you begin using it, ensure that you continue reading for further instructions.

To utilise ChatGPT's services with Siri, it is essential to obtain an OpenAI API key. In order to acquire this key, you need to generate a new secret key from your existing OpenAI account. If you don't possess an OpenAI account yet, you can easily create one by following this link. This secret key plays a crucial role in verifying your authentication. Here are the steps on how to do it:

1. Log in to your OpenAI account.
2. Search for the ‘Create new secret key’ option and click on it.

Once you obtain the API Key, incorporating ChatGPT's services with Siri is straightforward. It's important to remember, after making a copy of the key and closing the pop-up, you won't have access to it again. Therefore, store the key securely in a safe location.

After downloading the shortcut and copying your API key, follow these steps to put it to use:

• Begin by opening the Shortcuts app and finding the downloaded Chatty shortcut.

• Upon activating the ‘Chatty’ shortcut, you'll need to enter your OpenAI API key. You can choose to store this key either directly in the shortcut or in the Data Jar app. However, if you choose to store the key in the shortcut, it's crucial to ensure their privacy. Any inadvertent exposure could compromise your security and potentially result in a breach.

• Next, continue with the configuration procedure. Follow each essential step attentively to customise the outcome prompt based on your specific preferences for the shortcut. Once finished, you can start using 'Chatty' right away.

All set! After completing the integration, you can initiate the shortcut simply by tapping it inside the app or from your Mac's menu bar. If desired, you could also activate the shortcut using Siri. When ready, just say ‘Chatty’ and follow it up with your question or prompt. The shortcut will then generate a response and read it back to you.

ChatGPT is one of the foremost chatbots available today, with the capability to generate responses remarkably similar to human interaction. However, like all technology, it does present certain limitations and necessitates particular usage patterns to deliver the expected results. If you've found SiriGPT less useful, it might be due to the lack of specificity in your input. For SiriGPT (aka chatGPT) to provide precise and accurate responses, it's critical to clearly define your desired results. General or vague instructions will most likely result in a similarly unfocused answer, while an explicit and well-defined request will generate a more purposeful and useful response.

In summary, to exploit SiriGPT to its fullest, it is imperative to detail what you want and provide clear directives on what to avoid. Keeping these guidelines in mind, you can harness the full power of this advanced chatbot and simplify your daily tasks.

ChatGPT, DALL·E, and Whisper represent three highly notable breakthroughs in AI technology in recent years. The potential of SiriGPT lies in combining their capabilities into a single solution, revolutionising how we interact with our devices, and thus significantly simplifying our lives. However, just like with any technological advancement, there are inherent limitations. There may be instances where they fail to produce the anticipated results due to external factors such as server overload or inadequate data. In conclusion, while such technologies undoubtedly simplify our tasks, it is crucial to always consider the input, be mindful of potential limitations, and remember to handle the output with care.

SiriGPT offers a diverse array of capabilities across its various versions, making it a versatile and valuable AI assistant. With expanded language support, users can seamlessly interact in their native languages, promoting inclusivity and accessibility. SiriGPT can impersonate up to 16 different roles, including but not limited to roles like Business Strategist, Teacher, Accountant, Career Counselor, Editor, Essay Writer, Interviewer, Mental Health Advisor, Motivational Coach, Personal Trainer, Social Media Manager, and more. Users have the flexibility to customise token usage, enabling precise control over content generation. It provides the convenience of saving and accessing chat history, preserving valuable conversations effortlessly. The integration of Whisper technology enhances Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), allowing for accurate audio-to-text transcription and voice command-based content creation. SiriGPT's ability to summarise calendar events, articles, and generate images. Whether engaging in continuous conversations, adapting to multiple languages, or customising system prompts, SiriGPT is an adaptable AI assistant that continues to evolve to cater to a wide range of user needs, across various domains and applications.

Release Highlights:

• Revised Shortcut Structure: The structure of shortcuts within SiriGPT has been revisited and refined for improved usability and efficiency.

• New Model Integration: This update introduces two new models for selection. The first, the ChatGPT-4-Turbo model, combines GPT-4's advanced reasoning with enhanced processing speed to ensure quicker and more efficient responses. Additionally, the ChatGPT-3.5-Turbo-1106 variant has been added, offering improved performance compared to the 3.5-Turbo model. This variant is particularly suitable for scenarios requiring slight improvements in response quality whilst still maintaining high efficiency and speed.

• Updated Prompt Output: The standard prompt and the Do Anything Now (DAN) mode in SiriGPT have been enhanced for improved continuous conversation support. These updates ensure more precise and user-specific responses.

• Enhanced Role Prompts: Updated the prompt structure for each role, improving clarity and user engagement, ensuring a more intuitive and efficient interaction experience.

• Updated to DALL·E 3 with Option for DALL·E 2: Upgraded to the more advanced DALL·E 3 for enhanced image generation capabilities, while still providing users the choice to use DALL·E 2, ensuring flexibility and customisation in image generation preferences.

• Expanded Language Support: SiriGPT now offers support for several additional languages, including Ελληνικά (Greek), Hrvatski (Croatian), Norsk Bokmål (Norwegian Bokmål). This enhancement represents a significant step towards inclusivity, enabling a broader range of 30 languages supported by SiriGPT in their native languages.

Release Highlights:

• Prompt Enhancements: Minor improvements to both the standard prompt and the Do Anything Now (DAN) mode to enhance the effectiveness and accuracy of SiriGPT's responses.

• Expanded Language Support: SiriGPT now offers support for several additional languages, including Nederlands (Dutch), Українська (Ukrainian), Română (Romanian), Svenska (Swedish), Suomi (Finnish), Dansk (Danish), and 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese). This enhancement represents a significant step towards inclusivity, enabling a broader range of users to engage with SiriGPT in their native languages.

• Introducing the Business Strategist Role: In this update, the new "Business Strategist" role is introduced within SiriGPT. This role provides users with a dynamic and insightful approach to business planning and strategy development. Users who choose the Business Strategist role will embark on a comprehensive journey to deeply understand their business objectives and craft effective strategies. This addition empowers users to optimise their business endeavours and make informed decisions, enhancing their overall success and growth.

• Shortcut for Quick Access: A new shortcut for Mac users has been added: ⇧⌘<. This shortcut simplifies the process of launching SiriGPT, providing users with a convenient and efficient way to access the services promptly. This improvement aims to enhance user productivity and convenience.

Release Highlights:

• Chat History Preservation: A new feature allows users to easily save and access chat history. Whether for reference or convenience, this feature ensures that valuable conversations are securely stored, either in Data Jar or the Shortcut directory. If you opt for Data Jar as your storage option, a dedicated SiriGPT-Log will be created to house your logs. On the other hand, if Data Jar is not utilised, your chat history will be securely saved in the Shortcut directory, identified with a JSON extension. Rest assured, with this enhancement, you can preserve valuable conversations without any concern of losing them.

• Alternative Teacher Role: SiriGPT introduces an ‘Alternative Teacher’ role, offering a unique approach to learning. Users can delve into various subjects, receiving topic-tailored explanations in each session. The option to progress to the next lesson or engage in quizzes fosters an interactive learning experience.

Release Highlights:

• Token Customisation: Users gain the ability to customise the number of tokens used. It's important to note that the maximum token limit for content generation is shared between the prompt and completion sections, with the actual limit depending on the model used. On average, each token represents approximately 4 characters in standard English.

Release Highlights:

• Language Support Expansion: SiriGPT adds support for Polski (Polish) and Türkçe (Turkish), enhancing the inclusivity of the user experience.

• Enhanced Speech Recognition (ASR): With the introduction of the Whisper translation feature, SiriGPT's ASR functionality is significantly improved. It now enables transcriptions of audio files from supported languages into English text, facilitating convenient voice translation by simply typing or saying ‘Translate’ in supported languages. Chatty efficiently converts audio messages into text, making multilingual communication hassle-free.

Release Highlights:

• URL Summary Feature: To access this feature, copy the URL of the article you are interested in and then type or said the command ‘Summarise’ in any of the supported languages.

  Upon utilising this command, you will receive a concise paragraph consisting of approximately 100 words. Following that, a bullet-point list will highlight the most crucial information, concluding with a one-sentence summary. With this significant improvement, the summarisation feature allows for the quick and efficient extraction of essential content from any article.

• New Language Support: SiriGPT now supports English (India) and हिन्दी (Hindi), enhancing its universality. Many thanks for his help to Karthik Jeyakumar in implementing these languages.

• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with Whisper: SiriGPT integrates Whisper technology for ASR, rapidly converting audio into text with high precision. This feature allows voice command-based content creation and easy transcription of notes. Whisper allows users to compose content via voice commands, and also provides quick transcriptions of notes and thoughts within Chatty. Users can say ‘Write Down’ in the supported languages for simple transcriptions.

  To activate voice transcription, say the command and Chatty will start recording. Once completed, tap the screen to stop recording and Chatty will transcribe and copy the contents to the clipboard. This feature also enables users to conveniently convert extensive audio messages into text, useful in applications like WhatsApp.

  For example, in Whatsapp:

  • Hover over the message you wish to transcribe.
  • Click ‘Forward’ in the appearing menu.   
  • Choose the individual chat you want to transcript.   
  • Click the Share icon (in the right bottom corner).   
  • Select Chatty.   

Users have the right to privacy, which is why SiriGPT lets you decide which personal data you wish to share during its setup. SiriGPT is a feature within the Apple ecosystem that offers built-in protection, including situations where third-party service providers work in coordination with Apple. However, SiriGPT's functionality depends on the OpenAI API. Hence, if you are reluctant about sharing information with a third-party service, you will not be able to utilise SiriGPT. Should you decide to experiment with SiriGPT, we strongly encourage you to review the Privacy Policies of OpenAI beforehand.

This shortcut is primarily programmed to operate on the GPT-4 model by default. When we compare the operations of GPT-4 model with the GPT-3.5 model, there is little to distinguish between them in terms of performance for relatively straightforward tasks. However, the GPT-4 model outperforms the previous versions, especially when encountering complex reasoning scenarios. If you wish to access the GPT-4-serviced API, it's crucial to note that this privilege is limited to APIs with a history of successful transactions. If an API isn't eligible to run on the GPT-4 model, for instance, if it doesn't meet ChatGPT-4's qualification criteria, it's recommended to default to the GPT-3.5-Turbo model. If you're looking to explore the various subscription packages, you can review the available options here.

Just as humans have a dark side, so does AI. The Do Anything Now (DAN) Mode empowers SiriGPT to perform actions beyond its typical AI guidelines, potentially leading to breaches of OpenAI standards, with issues of inaccuracy and offensiveness arising. Consequently, it's advised to use DAN in a thoughtful and responsible manner.

The Whisper API has a default file size limit of 25 MB. If your audio file exceeds this limit, you have two options: either break it into chunks of 25 MB or less, or use a compressed audio format. To ensure optimal performance, it is advisable to avoid dividing the audio in the middle of a sentence, as it may lead to the loss of contextual information.

Here are the languages currently supported through both the transcription and translation endpoints: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

If you come across Siri stating ‘having trouble connecting to the network’ or asking to ‘try again in a little while’, the problem might be due to an unstable Wi-Fi or cellular signal. As Siri does not have an offline mode and operates by sending data to Apple servers, any issue between your device and the server may disrupt Siri's functionality. Also, if the OpenAI servers, which support SiriGPT (also known as Siri), are overwhelmed, it could potentially compromise Siri's ability to provide lengthy responses.

Try these steps to troubleshoot the issue:

• Restart your iPhone
• Check that ‘Listen for Hey Siri’ is enabled
• Reset Siri to recognise your voice
• Check the microphone functions correctly

If after these steps the problem persists, another solution is deleting Siri & Dictionary History from the Settings menu. Go to Settings Siri & Search Siri & Dictionary History Delete Siri & Dictionary History.

The SiriGPT prompt now offers support for 30 languages, including العربية (Arabic), Català (Catalan), 中文 (Chinese), Dansk (Danish), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), English (India, UK, US), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Français Canadien (Canadian French), हिन्दी (Hindi), Hrvatski (Croatian), Italiano (Italian), 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean), Nederlands (Dutch), Norsk Bokmål (Norwegian Bokmål), Polski (Polish), Português (Brazil, Portugal), Русский (Russian), Română (Romanian), Suomi (Finnish), Svenska (Swedish), Türkçe (Turkish), Українська (Ukrainian), 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese), 粤语 (Cantonese).

The method of configuring the decimal number settings is determined by the region settings of your device. For instance, a decimal number might be set as 0.1 or 0,1.

• Apple Siri
• Apple Shortcuts User Guide

• OpenAI Documentation
• OpenAI Examples
• OpenAI Playground
• OpenAI Models
• OpenAI Chat Completions
• OpenAI DALL·E
• OpenAI Whisper

• Data Jar

Thank you for considering this shortcut. Any contribution to improve SiriGPT's integration with the Apple ecosystem, through feedback, is highly appreciated. Encounter any issues or bugs? Please report them on the issues page.