Current language pack Bixby supports: English, Korean, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian and Spanish. There is no support for the Russian language. However, Samsung is actively working on new languages, which it regularly announces during its presentations.
Samsung launched its AI digital assistant for the first time on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, and even added a dedicated hardware button for calling Bixby. A lot of people have been left behind by Bixby and would like to change either the function of the Bixby button to open another app or disable it completely.
Long-term Samsung time didn't offer a way to disable or remap the Bixby button. But soon it released updates that made it possible to reassign the Bixby button. In a recent Bixby Home update that was released in several markets, Samsung finally offered to disable the Bixby button. If you've already disabled the Bixby button but want to enable it again, the situation can be quite tricky.
There are two ways to re-enable Bixby Home: request Bixby via voice command or scroll left from the home screen. This is only possible on phones that came with a dedicated Bixby button. Here's how to do it using both methods.
Step 1. Long press the Bixby button to activate Bixby Voice and prompt “Open Bixby Home.”
Step 2: Tap the gear icon in the top right corner of the screen, and then turn on the Bixby Key option by sliding the switch to the right.
Step 1: If you have disabled main screen Bixby, tap on the Home screen and swipe left.
Step 2: Toggle the Bixby Home switch.
In Korea, this virtual assistant became available in March 2017, and today - in most countries of the world speaking English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Chinese. When Samsung Bixby will be released in Russian, the majority of our compatriots, we are sure, will appreciate the new service. If you have already read its description, then you know that it promises to be more perfect than Alice or Google Assistant.
The proximity of the moment when Bixby Voice will speak Russian, or any other language that the virtual assistant does not yet have, depends on how soon Samsung receives the necessary amount of information and conducts the necessary research. You need to understand that this process will require participation large quantity specialists from the field of linguistics, IT, economics, etc. And the use of special equipment, of course.
Therefore, Samsung organized the Global R&D Networks (global research network), which includes centers artificial intelligence* and research centers** around the world. They are developing developments that allow expanding the audience of users of Bixby and other products.
One of these artificial intelligence centers is located in Russia (Moscow). And it depends on him when Bixby will work in Russia.
Please note: the exact release date of Bixby in Russian is not yet known. So far we only have information about the launch of the Artificial Intelligence Center in Russia - a significant part of the organizational issues have already been resolved, and a staff of key specialists has been recruited. Most likely, the work will begin in the very near future and one can hope that the first results can be expected quite soon.
For fans mobile devices We often hear about the benefits of voice assistants, which are constantly developing rapidly with the advent of new technologies and the entry of revolutionary smartphones into the market. Probably, some people find these technologies useless and think that they could never use them. We assure you that this is before the first use. Bixby.
One of the hallmarks of the latest, revolutionary device Galaxy S8 from a South Korean company Samsung was an innovation that had not previously been seen in more than one solution from the giant. Meet Bixby, voice assistant, which will simplify the use of the smartphone and help with solving problems associated with it.
Bixby was developed at Samsung not from scratch, but based on the technologies of the previous assistant. You probably don't know about it because few people have used it. But it was installed in almost all “smart” devices from the company, even watches. It can be said that S Voice(this was the name of the first voice assistant on the devices of the South Korean company) became an excellent help for Bixby, which the world saw quite recently. However, this is not a continuation of the S Voice idea. Only help was taken from the old technology; in essence, the new product surpasses both it and its competitors from Google in everything.
Unlike analogues, new project from Samsung will not be limited to living only on smart devices such as Android and watches. No, the South Korean company plans to go much further. In their ambitions, they see Bixby embedded in almost all household appliances, which in theory should make them easier to use. The platform for the new voice assistant will be operating system Tizen, implemented in some refrigerators from the giant company.
These innovations will take technology to a completely different level. If you can’t imagine how this will be used, then here’s an example: you are the owner of a smartphone with Bixby, and at the same time you have a new refrigerator from Samsung at home. Instead of writing lists of groceries you need to buy, you can simply ask your smartphone what's not in the fridge, what you usually buy, and what you need to buy now. A photograph of the contents will also be provided. But for now this is just a theory.
There is a separate button to activate the voice assistant. This makes its use as convenient and quickly accessible as possible. On the other hand, a wave of incomprehensible statements poured out on Samsung. Why dedicate a separate button on your device for Bixby when you can use a simple and accessible voice command? This was probably done to popularize new technology. It’s hard to disagree: if there is some kind of button on your smartphone, then you will undoubtedly want to know: what does it do? So everything more people will be introduced to Bixby. Probably, when the use of a voice assistant becomes commonplace for owners of Samsung gadgets, the company will abandon the button in favor of a convenient voice call. You shouldn’t discard the ability to activate Bixby with a gesture familiar to the user.
Its only function is to simplify smartphone management as much as possible. It may even get to the point where you don't have to use the screen - just tell Bixby out loud what you want it to do and it will do it. Such capabilities, in the form of working with applications, menu items, photos and audio, cannot be offered by more than one competitor on the market. This is what makes the novelty from Samsung interesting and popular. On the other hand, while Galaxy smartphone S8, like the voice assistant itself, is relatively new, it is impossible to fully judge the relevance of using Bixby functions in applications that are not standard. By the way, the need to walk through menu items is not such a useful thing, because it’s faster to do everything with your fingers than to ask Bixby for help out loud. On the other hand, it is an extremely useful thing for people with disabilities.
Bixby has been equipped with a feature that was previously implemented in applications from well-known trading platforms. Its essence is to scan a specific object and search for it on the Internet. Thus, the user of a smartphone with Bixby has the opportunity to view information about the thing he is interested in, as well as find it on the vastness of online platforms and stores, learn about average price. But, unlike applications, the voice assistant perceives and searches not only for goods, but for any object that turns out to be interesting to the smartphone user. It could be a house, a monument, anything.
The voice assistant perfectly understands natural speech. For example, take Siri - if you want to learn something from her, then you need to contact her using a certain list of phrases. With Bixby everything is much simpler, at least if you access your smartphone on English language. And of course, where without an instant translator. The new product is equipped with this function, so you can forget about third party applications. Just dictate the text, and Bixby will translate it into the desired language.
Bixby is an extremely promising creation from Samsung that just needs time for a few things:
When both of these events happen, we will see this technology on other Samsung devices, but for now, only S8 and S8 users have the opportunity to test it.
Today we have prepared a short review Bixby on Samsung, a fun voice assistant like Google Assist and Siri. We'll talk about its capabilities, how Bixby works, and also make short review for this assistant.
The Bixby button has finally found its way into the S8 series smartphones and has received an important function - voice support. On this moment this feature was officially launched in the United States as early version, and Samsung promise to work hard on Bixby updates and release them frequently. And that's a good thing - because at launch the Bixby functionality has a lot of flaws.
There is no beta testing in Russia yet, but we did it with the help of our American colleague @AndrewBon and today we will talk about his experience.
At the very beginning of the launch, you will be shown a tutorial that will tell you how to launch the Bixby function and that the program will learn to recognize your voice.
You can activate Bixby by saying “Hi, Bixby” (hello, Bixby), or simply by holding the Bixby button during a call, as if you were talking on a walkie-talkie. Next, you can ask him the basics: weather in London, alarm clock. And right here, on the simplest functions, Bixby stumbles. No, he can talk about the weather, the problem is a little different.
Firstly, it is very slow and sluggish compared to Google Assistant. Ask Bixby what time it is and it will launch the clock app first and then read the answer. Identification of the US President (simple query for Siri and US) - explicit difficult task for him. It just takes you to Google. And in general, he quite often sends queries to the search, as if there is no knowledge base from which the answers should be taken.
What Bixby does well is change the settings of phones internally. Switch between call modes, open an application in a split screen, go into settings - it does all this perfectly well, fortunately Samsung has added about 3,000 commands for this part to the phone database. Native applications Samsung is better In total they work with Bixby, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Uber, Gmail, Google maps are also perfectly optimized. The list is quite large and the Bixby voice assistant copes well with all of this.
To help Bixby detect your voice, you need to talk to it more often. Samsung has even introduced an experience system, which you can earn for interacting with your phone to level up and unlock new background colors for the assistant interface.
