Samsung has announced an expansion of language capabilities for both Galaxy AI and its voice assistant, Bixby. The update broadens accessibility across multiple core features, enabling a wider international audience to interact with their devices in their native languages.
Galaxy AI Language Expansion
The expansion for Galaxy AI focuses primarily on tools designed for real-time translation, transcription, and summarization. Core services—including Call Assist, Note Assist, Interpreter, and Transcript Assist—have added support for Hungarian and Malay. With these additions, translation capabilities such as Live Translate now cover a total of 24 languages.
The full list of 24 supported languages encompasses:
- Arabic
- Chinese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- Dutch
- English (Australia, India, UK, U.S.)
- Filipino
- French (Canada, France)
- German
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil, Europe)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.)
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
(Note: Regional variants listed in parentheses represent localized dialects rather than distinct languages.)
In addition, Now Nudge—a contextual feature that suggests relevant actions based on on-screen content—has integrated eight new languages: Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati, Hungarian, Malay, Romanian, Swedish, and Turkish. This addition brings the feature’s total language coverage to 24.
Broadened Capabilities for Bixby
Samsung’s on-device assistant, Bixby, which allows users to manage settings and execute device commands through conversational language, has introduced three new languages: Polish, Thai, and Vietnamese.
With this update, Bixby supports 12 languages globally:
- Chinese (China mainland)
- English (India, UK, U.S.)
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Spanish (Latin America, Spain)
- Thai
- Vietnamese
Rollout Timeline
The deployment of Bixby’s new language capabilities began on October 14, with availability and schedules varying by market and specific device model. The newly introduced Galaxy AI languages are scheduled to roll out in the subsequent weeks, with select languages offered as downloadable language packs via the device’s Settings menu.