Last month Samsung started rolling out its Bixby Voice assistant globally. Today at the launch of its flagship Galaxy Note8 smartphone in India, Dipesh Shah, MD, Samsung R&D Institute said that Bixby Voice will be available in India in the next few weeks for the Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones.
It supports U.S. English, but it has been optimized to understand English in Indian accents. “It doesn’t matter which part of India you are from, Bixby will work hard to understand you and take care of your daily activities,” he said at the event.
With full voice capabilities for U.S. English, users can easily activate voice commands such as turning on the flashlight, taking a selfie, setting reminders, find photos from your gallery and more by pressing the Bixby button and saying “Hi, Bixby.”
Samsung already said that it plans to continue expanding Bixby’s voice capabilities to additional languages, devices, features and third-party applications.