Siri on macOS: Copy and save all Siri audio recordings as .wav files

siri_recording_save.sh

#!/bin/zsh

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# Save all of your Siri recordings on macOS. The recordings will be saved as .wav files in $SIRI_SAVE_DIR
#
# USAGE:
# $ wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/varenc/8cae8f19fede79f63b84cc85f602f382/raw/siri_recording_save.sh
# $ chmod +x siri_recording_save.sh
# $ ./siri_recording_save.sh
#
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SIRI_SAVE_DIR="/tmp/siri_recordings"
SIRI_SOURCE_DIR="$HOME/Library/Assistant" # You shouldn't need to change this

if ! which fswatch > /dev/null ; then echo 'The util 'fswatch' is not installed! Install it with `brew install fswatch`'; exit 1; fi

echo "Watching Siri directory ($SIRI_SOURCE_DIR) now...all new Siri recordings will be copied and saved to $SIRI_SAVE_DIR"
[ -d "$SIRI_SAVE_DIR" ] || mkdir  "$SIRI_SAVE_DIR"


# Watch the siri directory for new .wav files.  These are streamed to disk as they are recorded.
# Once Siri is done the files are deleted, but since we are watching the directory we can copy them immediately
# and save them for later. Siri deletes the files soon after they are done recording but our copies will be saved
# You will however see a 'No such file or directory' error in the console when Siri is done with each recording.
# But check $SIRI_SAVE_DIR and they should be there
fswatch -r "$SIRI_SAVE_DIR" | grep --line-buffered '.wav$'  | xargs -n1 -I {} cp -v {} "$SIRI_SAVE_DIR"