Samsung has been inventing exciting technologies and features on their Smartphones for a couple of years now. That includes their very own artificial intelligence voice recognition called Bixby. Voice assistant is not new nowadays; you can find it in any high-end smartphone device right now. With that, here are the things you should know about Bixby.

Getting To Know Bixby

What is Bixby? This might be the one million dollar question going through your mind right now. Suppose you’re familiar with artificial intelligence voice assistants from other smartphone brands. If that’s the case, it’s easier for you to understand Bixby’s purpose and use. Like other voice assistants from other smartphone brands out there, Bixby is Samsung’s version of AI voice assistant.

Like other voice assistants in other brands such as Amazon Alexa, DataBot, Google Assistant, Hound, and more., Bixby has the same usage and purpose. It is to provide you a better experience while using your smartphone. Although Bixby has is slightly different in terms of features, you’ll know all of that in this article.

Here’s a little information about how Bixby works. However, this will be thoroughly explained in the latter part of the article. Since you already know that Bixby is owned by Samsung. Its primary purpose is to provide important information such as weather updates, reminders, news, opening apps, accessing messages and call logs, etc.

Bixby plays a vital role in Samsung’s technology evolution since most Smartphones right now are fastly innovating to an Artificial Intelligence type of ecosystem. To better understand Bixby’s purpose and effectively use it on your Samsung smartphone, you need to finish this article until the end.

Capabilities Of Bixby

Bixby is mainly designed by Samsung to run different interactions, not just by opening apps or telling you about the weather. Bixby is more than that. It can recognize and run various tasks simultaneously. It also adapts its function depending on what state your smartphone is into. That’s how intelligent Bixby is.

Bixby is also a dialect nazi, which means that it can understand and speak different languages or dialects. Here are the languages that Bixby can understand and communicate: English, Spanish, Korean, and Mandarin. Samsung is still adding more languages to offer the best experience for every Samsung user worldwide.

The wake word is also available with Bixby, such as “Hi Bixby.” It works the same with other voice assistants like Google: “Hi Google” or “Hey Google.” The wake word is beneficial, especially if you are doing something, and you’re unable to hold your phone. You can access every app to your phone by just saying the wake word of Bixby.

Bixby’s Unique Features

As you already learned above, Bixby has many capabilities and features. To know more about that, here are some of Bixby’s exact features. Just a disclaimer, this feature might not be present to other voice assistants from other brands. But if you’re using a Samsung smartphone, these features will definitely help you with your day-to-day activities.

Bixby Voice Recognition

The good thing about Bixby is that it’s not limited to smartphones only. You can use Bixby’s voice recognition technology to access your Samsung smart tv, air-condition, and other Samsung smart appliances.

Examples of Bixby’s voice recognition are “show on TV,” which means you can duplicate what you see on your smartphone to your Samsung smart tv. You can also tell Bixby to take a selfie of you and share it with your Facebook account by saying, “take a selfie and share with Facebook.” For more Bixby voice recognition, you can visit their site instead.

Bixby Vision

Just like Google’s Google Lens, Bixby has a feature that can identify any type of thing you point at it using your camera. To access this feature, you can simply use Bixby’s voice recognition and ask the item’s name in front of you. You can also manually pull-up your camera and click the Bixby Vision button for Bixby to provide you the name of the item.

Bixby Vision is not full-proof; there is also some time that it identifies the object incorrectly. Although Samsung is doing its best to make this feature more precise. Still, Bixby Vision is a beneficial feature, especially if you want to know the object in front of you on-the-go.

Bixby Home Feature

Bixby also has another feature called Bixby Home. This feature is perfect for those users who can’t access its voice recognition, maybe because their country is not supported yet, or they are using a local language. You can access this feature in your home screen, just swipe to the left of your home screen, and you’ll see various helpful apps.

Bixby’s Intuitive Reminder

Often forget business meetings or special occasions? Then this feature will definitely help you. Bixby can provide and set any type of reminder for you. You can ask Bixby to remind you about a particular call or text you need to do later. You can also ask Bixby to remind you of a specific occasion or event. It’s actually up to you what reminder you want Bixby to do for you.

Use Bixby Now! 

Ever since Samsung invented and added Bixby as their Artificial Intelligence Voice Recognition, it offered more convenience to every Samsung user. What’s excellent about Bixby is that it is still evolving, which means you’ll be getting more unique and helpful features in the future.

Danny White