Samsung’s Galaxy Home speaker will compete against Apple’s HomePod
The Galaxy Home speaker is the first to include Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant; it was announced earlier today alongside the Note 9 smartphone.
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Samsung’s smart speaker could undercut HomePod with a price point around $200
Unlike HomePod, Samsung’s Bixby-powered smart home speaker should let users conduct voice-based web searches.
Samsung outs new smartwatches and earbuds with Bixby integration
The wearables focus on fitness tracking while an updated IconX earbuds offer built-in storage and sensors for untethered music playback and fitness tracking.
Samsung steps up challenge to Siri, expands Bixby’s voice capabilities to 200+ countries
Currently available in US English and Korean, Bixby’s voice capabilities can now be used in 200+ countries around the world.
Samsung confirms working on HomePod rival that’ll “provide a fruitful user experience”
It’s official: Samsung’s HomePod rival is on the way.
Samsung starts rolling out Siri rival Bixby in US English
Following multiple delays, Samsung’s new personal digital assistant Bixby has introduced voice capabilities in U.S. English for users in the United States and Korea.
Samsung delays Bixby’s English rollout over lack of big data
The promised June rollout of Bixby’s English version has been delayed until further notice because Samsung lacks the accumulation of big data, which is key to deep learning tech.
WSJ: Samsung working on Bixby powered smart speaker
Samsung is allegedly working on a smart speaker of its own which should be powered by the company’s Bixby virtual assistant, currently in beta.
Here’s everything Samsung unveiled today
Wednesday, Samsung fired the first salvo against Apple’s upcoming iPhone 8 with the official introduction of its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones at media events in New York’s Lincoln Center and London’s Olympic Park.
But the South Korean conglomerate didn’t stop there: they announced a 4K-capable 360-degree camera and other accessories, including a docking station that lets you connect your new Galaxy to an external display and wireless or wired keyboard and/or mouse to use it as an Android-driven computer with a desktop-like interface.
Without further ado, here’s a quick recap of everything Samsung announced today.
Samsung announces Siri rival Bixby
Samsung on Monday officially announced Bixby, its new personal digital assistant based on AI technologies from Viv Labs, a startup by Siri co-founders Dag Kittalus and Adam Cheyer that the South Korean company acquired last year. According to InJong Rhee, Executive Vice President and head of R&D, Software and Services at Samsung, Bixby is about completeness, context awareness and cognitive tolerance, aside from other features.
The personal assistant should launch alongside Galaxy S8 and will be “fundamentally different” than Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant and more.
Galaxy S8’s assistant to be called Bixby, offer camera-based visual search & text recognition
Galaxy S8 is widely expected to include a new Siri-like personal assistant, called Bixby, which may let users search for objects identified in a photograph and recognize text on images. These features should be integrated directly into Samsung’s standard Camera app via a dedicated Bixby button, SamMobile learned Thursday.
Aside from these rumored visual search features, Bixby is thought to let the user control all stock apps and conduct payments, similar to Apple’s Siri, and more.