Samsungs upcoming Galaxy S8 has long been rumored to feature a brand new virtual assistant tentatively called Bixby. This has been apparently made possible by the company having acquired a specialized startup launched by the creators of Apples Siri. So far weve heard that Bixby will be able to identify objects and text through the cameras viewfinder, and it will also feature some kind of integration with Samsung Pay.
Anyway, todays rumor from Samsungs home of South Korea claims that Bixby will launch with support for 7 to 8 different languages, including English, Korean and Chinese. If this information pans out, it means that Samsungs new assistant will be much more of a polyglot than Googles Assistant, which currently supports only English and German on Pixel phones, and only English on the Google Home product. That said, theres another iteration of the Google Assistant, the one thats built into the Allo chat app, and this one knows English, German, Hindi, Japanese, and Portuguese.
Thats still a lower number of languages than Bixby is claimed to support, so Samsung will be ahead in this game no matter how you look at it. On the other hand, while language support is obviously important in a virtual assistant, speech recognition accuracy and its actual skills (what it can do for you) are definitely even more so, and we dont yet know how Bixby fares in that department. Oh, and its also good to note that Apples Siri trumps both Googles and Samsungs assistants at the moment by supporting 20 languages.
Source (in Korean) | Via
! ( hope useful)
No comments:
Post a Comment