FAQ

CouchVox turns an Apple TV Siri Remote into a macOS controller for button actions, cursor control, remote typing, dictation, text refinement, and confirmation-based AI workflows. The remote is optional — keyboard shortcuts cover every feature.

Apple TV Siri Remotes (2nd generation and later) pair over Bluetooth. Older aluminum remotes and third-party remotes aren’t supported.

Yes. It’s a macOS utility that uses Mac-specific permissions, input paths, and menu bar behavior. There is no Windows or iOS version.

CouchVox requires macOS 26, which only runs on Apple silicon, so the app ships as an arm64 build with no Intel (x86_64) version.

Six steps take you from install to control:

1. Grant permissions. Allow Accessibility, audio access, and launch-at-login in macOS.
2. Pair the remote (optional). Connect an Apple TV Siri Remote over Bluetooth — or skip it and use the keyboard.
3. Choose actions. Map buttons, profiles, cursor, keyboard, and voice presets.
4. Connect AI models. Pick a speech-recognition (ASR) engine and an LLM.
5. Add AI automation (optional). Install Open Computer Use or Open Browser Use for hands-free control — every action asks for your confirmation first.
6. Control or speak. Trigger actions from the remote, keyboard, or your voice — nothing to type.

The first three steps get you driving your Mac with a remote or keyboard. The last three add dictation, an LLM, and optional hands-free AI automation.

CouchVox needs a few macOS permissions. Each one powers a specific feature, and nothing is collected without it:

Accessibility — to send synthetic mouse and keyboard events for cursor movement, clicks, drag gestures, remote button mappings, global hotkeys, and AI computer-control actions.

Bluetooth — to connect to the Apple TV Siri Remote and inspect its Bluetooth traffic during pairing and setup.

Microphone — to capture audio from your Mac’s built-in mic or the Siri Remote mic, and route decoded remote audio into the bundled virtual microphone for voice workflows.

Speech Recognition — to transcribe local voice input using Apple Speech.

Screen Recording — only required for AI automation workflows that drive the computer; it lets those actions see what’s on screen before executing.

Inspecting the Siri Remote’s Bluetooth traffic requires a restricted Bluetooth entitlement from Apple. Provisioning profiles that carry a restricted entitlement are capped at a three-day validity window by Apple’s signing system — once that window closes, the profile expires and Bluetooth features pause until you reinstall it. This is a platform-level constraint on restricted entitlements, not a CouchVox choice, and it only affects Siri Remote pairing and Bluetooth control. Keyboard shortcuts, dictation via your Mac’s built-in microphone, text refinement, and AI workflows all keep working without the profile.

CouchVox can capture voice from the Siri Remote microphone, show live voice overlays, route audio through a virtual microphone path, and support local or cloud transcription flows. No Siri Remote paired? You can still dictate using your Mac’s built-in microphone, and trigger every Polish and AI feature from keyboard shortcuts.

CouchVox supports both local and remote speech recognition (ASR) models for transcription, and remote LLM models for post-processing and AI workflows. Local LLM models aren’t supported yet — they require a lot of memory, and the smaller, memory-friendly models that could run locally don’t match the output quality of the larger remote models. We’d rather give you the better result than a slower local one.

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