April 11, 2020 05:50 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21217617/samsung-s-voice-assistant-wearables-bixby
Samsung finally killing off S Voice assistant as of June 1
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Later this year Samsung will finally kill off its S Voice assistant, which never really caught up to Apple’s Siri. A note on Samsung’s support page says S Voice will no longer be available from June 1, as first reported by SamMobile.
Samsung’s first attempt at a voice assistant, S Voice was introduced in 2012 in the Galaxy S III, but was buggy and slow. As 9to5 Google notes, S Voice could set reminders and make calls but wasn’t able to answer user questions in a conversational way, like Siri and Google Assistant are designed to do.
Samsung essentially replaced S Voice with Bixby in phones starting with the Galaxy S8 (although Bixby itself hasn’t exactly impressed reviewers from The Verge over its lifespan, either). A few of Samsung’s...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21217617/samsung-s-voice-assistant-wearables-bixby
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