The principle behind Bixby appears to be that phones have grown too complicated to use, therefore you need a more natural way to interact with the technology. Why is Samsung going all in with Bixby? Steve Kovach has some answers: Bixby will tell you what…items are and, in the U.S., send you to Amazon to buy them. If you typically call your mom at 4 p.m….a card will suggest that before you…open the phone.īixby also has an image-recognition component, called Bixby Vision, that identifies landmarks, types of wine, products and text for translation. You can access “Bixby Home” by swiping left to where Flipboard used to be…Bixby Home includes cards with suggestions to make your life easier. Currently, Samsung said, voice assistants can only pick a small variety of functions within an app and are mostly unable to understand context, so the information in a request has to be spot on.īut how will it actually function on the phone? Shara Tibken has more details:Īt first…Bixby will…be available in only English and Korean, with Chinese and U.S. So what do we know about Bixby beyond that? Kellex has some details:īixby will work with applications, but they’ll have to be “Bixby-enabled”…on the Galaxy S8, Samsung has…said that only a “subset of preinstalled applications” will be Bixby-enabled…We’re more than likely just talking about the stock Samsung apps here, like phone, messaging, email, calendar, etc…this is going to be a slow buildout of Bixby-enabling and will probably take years to be fully realized…At some point Samsung will release an SDK to let developers get in on the Bixby action, but that time is not now, apparently.Īnd how will the voice assistant work on these Bixby-enabled apps? Nat Levy fills us in:īixby…will be able to interpret and process incomplete information and perform pretty much every task in an app via voice commands. This sets Bixby apart from the competition.Samsung revealed…that Bixby, an intelligent voice assistant, will run on the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone slated to be announced March 29.īixby will be activated using a special physical button on the…phone, differentiating it from some other assistants that rely on a trigger word, like “Alexa” or “Siri.” However, they cannot open your Instagram direct messages or show your YouTube subscription list like Bixby can. The other two digital assistants let you control basic system settings or send messages to friends and family. You can also use Bixby routines, which trigger multiple actions with one prompt.īixby works with Samsung's Smart Things platform to allow you to control smart home devices with your voice.

Samsung's voice assistant can change the brightness level, toggle auto-rotate on and off, take a selfie, play music on Spotify, reply to an email in Gmail, and more.

Through voice commands, Bixby can send text messages, check the weather, call friends and family, launch apps, and control music playback.īixby's integration with system settings and certain third-party apps sets it apart from Google Assistant, Apple Siri, and Amazon Alexa. Samsung's Bixby voice assistant lets you control many of the company's devices hands-free.

Samsung virtual assistant.