Emoji Dictation

Siri gets some much-needed smarts in this year’s OS releases. It can automatically insert punctuation in the text you’re dictating, and you can specify emojis by name to have them inserted in-line.

For whatever reason, this latter capability requires a “Mac with M1 and later” and a download of speech models for your preferred languages. It will be available in Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.) — but only on an Apple Silicon Mac.