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What Bixby is is less familiar to many users. Other voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana are far better known. In this article, we explain how the little helper Bixby can make many things easier in everyday life.
What is Bixby – the Samsung voice assistant introduced
Bixby is at home on Samsung smartphones running Android Pie.
- Bixby is more than just an information provider or shopping advisor. The helper can also do smart home. The main functions are “Voice”, “Vision”, “Home” and “Reminder”.
- As is well known, Samsung does not only produce smartphones, but also household appliances. Here lies the advantage over other voice assistants. Samsung wants to make its electrical household appliances compatible with the voice assistant Bixby in the future.
- What else Bixby can do: Recognise things held in front of the lens. For example, if you point the lens at your neighbour’s shoes, Bixby will show you where to buy them.
- After a long wait, Bixby has now also learned German. Until now, the voice assistant could only speak English, Korean and Mandarin Chinese.
- Besides German, Bixby has also learned Italian and Spanish.
- The only requirement for using Bixby: your Samsung smartphone needs to be upgraded to Android 9.0 Pie.
Bixby “Home” to go
You can get to Bixby “Home” with a swipe gesture from the home screen.
- Here you can access not only the calendar, but also other third-party apps
- Samsung wants to make its assistant a little more interesting for users this way.
- To ensure that as many developers as possible participate and the scope of the offering grows quickly, Samsung has created a freely available development platform with the Bixby Developer Studio.
- This platform is intended to make not only services but also devices suitable for the assistant. That’s why Samsung is also opening up the “SmartThings” platform to third-party developers. So you can not only control Samsung devices with the help of Bixby.
