Bixby (virtual assistant)
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| Original author(s) | Samsung | ||||||||||||
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| Developer(s) | Samsung and Viv Labs | ||||||||||||
| Initial release | April 21, 2017 | ||||||||||||
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| Development status | Active | ||||||||||||
| Operating system | Android 7.0 Nougat with Samsung Experience | ||||||||||||
| Platform | Android | ||||||||||||
| Available in | English, Korean | ||||||||||||
| Type | Intelligent personal assistant | ||||||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Bixby | 1.0.01 / April 30, 2017 |
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| Bixby Global Action | 1.0.00 / April 30, 2017 |
| Hello Bixby | 1.9.38 / April 30, 2017 |
| Bixby service | 1.0.00 / April 30, 2017 |
| Bixby Vision | 1.2.02 / May 5, 2017 |
| Bixby voice input | 1.0.00 / April 30, 2017 |
Bixby is a virtual assistant developed by Samsung Electronics.
On March 20, 2017, Samsung announced the voice-powered digital assistant named "Bixby". Bixby was introduced alongside the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2017 event, which was held on March 29, 2017.Samsung officially unveiled Bixby a week before launch but it only made its first appearance during the event. Bixby can also be sideloaded on older Galaxy devices running Android Nougat.
Bixby represents a major reboot for S Voice, Samsung's voice assistant app introduced in 2012 with the Galaxy S III.
In May 2017, Samsung announced that Bixby would be coming to its line of Family Hub 2.0 refrigerators, making the first non-mobile product to include the virtual assistant.
Bixby comes with three parts, known as Bixby Voice, Bixby Vision and Bixby Home. With Bixby Voice, the user can trigger Bixby by calling it or pressing and holding the button located below the volume rocker, dubbed the Bixby Button. A while before the phone's release, the Bixby Button was reprogrammable and could be set to open other applications or assistants, such as Google Assistant. Near the phone's release, however, this ability was removed with a firmware update.
Bixby Vision is built into the camera app and can "see" what one can see as it is essentially an augmented reality camera that can identify objects in real time, search for them on various services, and offer the user to purchase them if available. Bixby is also able to translate text, read QR codes and recognize landmarks.
Bixby Home can be found by swiping to the right on the home screen. It is a vertically scrolling list of information that Bixby can interact with, for example, weather, fitness activity, and buttons for controlling their smart home gadgets.
Bixby supports multiple languages including English, Korean and Chinese. It also supports contextual search and visual search.
Currently, Bixby is only available in Korean and English. However, Samsung announced on April 6, 2017 that the German release is planned for quarter 4 of 2017. Bixby Korean was launched on May 1, 2017 (KST).
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