When the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ were revealed to the world a month back, one of the phone’s most anticipated feature wasn’t available for public usage at the time. We are talking about the Bixby voice assistant that Samsung claims to eradicate button usage for simple tasks (it’s basically Samsung’s iteration of Google Assistant). However, it’s been some time and Bixby is ready to rock.
Samsung has rolled out Bixby’s voice recognition abilities for Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ units in Korea for now. Samsung’s Bixby is allowed to let users control at least 10 applications using Bixby Voice, including the Gallery, Calculator, Weather, Reminder, Messages, Settings, Camera, Contacts and more.
Bixby can also be used to make payments in Samsung Pay by enabling Bixby Labs. Some third party apps like Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp can also work with Bixby.
Until now, Bixby was limited to reminding events and using the Bixby Vision – a feature that lets users point the camera towards an object, which makes Bixby point out related results.
According to Softpedia, the Bixby voice recognition feature will be extended to devices in the US and other countries shortly.
