Yesterday Samsung unveiled its new voice assistant called Bixby. It should debut in the new flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 +, the announcement of which is scheduled for March 29.
Bixby is a new intelligent assistant for new Samsung devices. It has three major advantages over voice assistants, which are now on the market. In particular, Bixby support can be built into applications, after which the new assistant will be able to perform all tasks that perform through the normal interface of the program. Also Bixby will react differently to user requests depending on the current actions and will be able to recognize various voice commands, including those made in free
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"Beginning with our new smartphones, Bixby will be gradually applied to all of our devices.In the future, you will be able to control your TV or air conditioning through Bixby.Bixby will also be implemented in the cloud.We are confident that as the Bixby ecosystem grows, it will evolve from the phone interface to Interface for your life, "- said in an official press release Samsung .
To activate the Bixby assistant, there will be a special button on the side of the smartphone, when pressed, the assistant will offer two control methods to choose from: voice or touch. Whether text commands will be supported is not yet known. It is noted that at the start of many pre-installed applications Samsung Galaxy S8 will support Bixby. And specifically for third-party developers Samsung will release a special SDK-kit to enable Bixby support in their applications Related Products :
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