Building for Voice with Siri Shortcuts

WWDC 2018

Adding Shortcuts to Siri

Types of custom responses

• Confirmation

• Success

• Information

• Error

Adopting Custom Responses

1. Define a custom intent

2. Select a category for your intent

3. Declare response properties

4. Provide a response template string

5. Provide custom responses in your intent handler

Adopting Custom Responses

Custom UI Extension

• Provide a custom UI for your shortcut
• Shows in Siri, on Lock Screen, and in Search
• What’s New in SiriKit (WWDC 2017)

Demo

• Sample Link

Siri Shortcuts Best Practices

Customizing Donations

Choosing a Good Title and Subtitle

• The title should represent what happens when you run the shortcut
• The subtitle should provide supplementary information if needed

Basic Guidelines for Title and Subtitle

• Use sentence case
• Keep the title concise
• Include critical information
• Include a verb for Intents
• Localize

Things to Avoid in Title and Subtitle

• The name of your app
• Duplicate information in the title and subtitle
• “Quotation marks” excepts when referring to strings that will be used verbatim in the shortcut

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Suggesting an invocation phrase

Choosing a Good Suggested Invocation Phrase

• Short and memorable
• Don’t include “Hey Siri”

Localization

• Localize both your code and the strings in your intent definition files
• Pluralization
• New Localization Workflows in Xcode 10 ( WWDC 2018 )

How to suggest a shortcut for something a user hasn’t done yet

Bringing Shortcuts Into Your App