Samsung to launch Bixby Voice assistant today, but is it ready for prime time?
However, Samsung informed customers that Bixby Voice won't be available on the Galaxy S8 phones when they make their debut on the market and that the assistant will be distributed later on.
A Samsung official was quoted saying that “Bixby Voice is going through an iterative process to build up a user's voice, instructions, and other knowledge through a learning engine called Deep Learning.”
If Bixby Voice services will provide users with the full experience that other AIs like Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa, and Siri offer to some degree, it remains to be seen.
The good news is the rollout will begin today in South Korea and will slowly expand to more countries in the coming days.
If you've already bought the phone, Bixby Voice will be pushed OTA to your Galaxy S8 or S8+, so all you have to do is wait. In the meantime, you can check out what we think about Bixby assistant by reading our Samsung Galaxy S8 review.
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