After months of waiting voice assistant Bixby Voice began to arrive on smartphones around the world. In an effort to compete with the likes of Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, and Cortana, Samsung has indeed managed to do a pretty good job with Bixby. In fact, when it comes to performing complex actions in apps, Bixby looks even more convincing than its competitors. To further solidify its position, Samsung also introduced the Bixby Page, which is very similar to google page Now on your home screen. It's a shame that Bixby's voice recognition only works with a few languages ​​- on this moment with English (in its American version) and with Korean. On the other hand, Google Assistant comes preinstalled on these devices anyway. That is, the user always has the option to use only Google Assistant by disabling Bixby. Today we'll show you how you can turn off Bixby Voice as well as Bixby Page on Samsung Galaxy S8 or.

How do I turn off Bixby Voice?

So, if you want to use Bixby Voice, you can hold the Bixby button and say “Hi, Bixby,” or access the assistant from the Bixby Cards page. But if you want to disable it, do the following actions:

How do I disable the Bixby page?

As mentioned earlier, the Bixby page is similar to what you get from Google Now Cards. In fact, this is a good thing, and the longer you use it, the more useful you will discover in it. However, if you want to disable it, click on main screen your device and hold until home page Bixby. Disable this page using the switch in the upper right corner... It's all. You will no longer see the Bixby page on your home screen.

Now that you know how to turn off Bixby Voice and Bixby Cards, you can use some other voice assistant, or perhaps do without it altogether on your Samsung device. We brought the most simple ways, with which you can disable Bixby Voice and Bixby Page on Samsung Galaxy S8 or Note 8. We are interested in your opinion about this voice assistant: are you using it, are you satisfied with its work, have already disabled Bixby, or are you going to use our instructions to make this is? Share information and leave your questions in the comments.

Hello guys, let's talk today about the S Voice program, which is intended only for Samsung phones... Well, what does this program do, you will probably think .. well, I will answer, everything is simple, S Voice acts as a voice assistant. Well, the first thing that came to my mind was Okay Google, although these are probably a little different things.

So what can S Voice do? The possibilities are interesting, but I'll run ahead and say that there are probably some disadvantages in this application! Well, I mean that there is no life without jambs, so to speak, I don't know why, but in every application that COULD BE VERY USEFUL IN THEORY, it has jambs such that in the end you just don't want to use the application! Sorry guys, I wrote a little off topic, these are just my thoughts!

WELL SO HERE, what can S Voice do? But what, it can call and send SMS, if the program really knows how to do all this without jambs, then honor and praise her! Also, S Voice can recognize the weather, which is commendable too! S Voice can determine where you are now, here you probably need a GPS module in your phone. It can pave the route, well, yes, but Google Maps or Yandex Maps also do a great job with this. There is a built-in alarm clock, there seems to be nothing special here. You can add notes and reminders to your calendar. You can also turn Wi Fi on or off .. Well, and much more, something necessary, but something superfluous, well, it seems to me ...

Russian language is present in S Voice, that's good

In principle, such things. You can play with S Voice, can this application be useful in practice? I dont know…

But after reading about S Voice on the Internet, I came to the conclusion that not everyone likes this program, well, some users are wondering how to disable it? Well, if this is interesting to you, then I will now answer this question. I hope my version, if anything, will help you. In short, launch S Voice, then go to the settings, and here there will be an item Open with the Home key, remove the check mark from this item:

So what did we do with this? Now the Home button will perform its intended purpose and will not launch the S Voice program with this button. There is another option for disabling: select Applications and there you find S Voice App and disable it. Well, or turn it off through the dispatcher

By the way, Windows 10 also has an assistant, but I think that it will be cooler, you may even know it, this is the Cortana assistant. It seems to be a female assistant ..

Here's how S Voice knows the weather:

Hmm, I didn't know about this, but there is one very interesting feature of the S Voice application, in short, you can give commands to your smartphone even when it is ... OFF, wow! However, not all models support such an innovative feature! That is, your voice can turn on the phone! Didn't I confuse anything? Yes, it seems not! Look, go to the S Voice settings, there is an item Turn on by voice, move the slider to the right and then click Yes:

But also check that the Wake-up command is ticked Then, to send a command, you need to call S Voice, for this say the wake-up phrase, by default it is: Hello, Galaxy. After this phrase, the S Voice application will open and everything will be ready to receive your command.

I found a picture, it says Welcome, well, it's like a greeting:

After the greeting, a tutorial will be offered, you can skip it, or you can learn how to use S Voice by watching a short lesson:

Then there will be such infa, it says here that you need to click on the microphone and say the phrase (to look for the cow smiled).

Undoubtedly, S Voice has evolved in stages over the years and is now much more convenient than it used to be. However, for many, the question of how to disable S Voice on Samsung Galaxy S5, S4, S3 and other gadgets remains a priority. Preferring either not to use voice commands at all, or to download better alternatives - Google Now and other applications Play Store, users are abandoning S Voice.

Disabling S Voice seems to make sense, as without this feature, the responsiveness of the Home button is noticeably increased. Fortunately, to do this, it is enough to perform fairly simple manipulations with your Korean gadget.

Instructions on how to disable S Voice

The Voice Commands app on the Samsung Galaxy often gets in the way. The fact is that it starts if you double-click on the "Home" button. That is, sometimes it happens by accident, which, of course, can be unnerving. Not only that, the response of the Home button is noticeably slowed down by S Voice. It is not surprising that more and more users are wondering how to disable Voice on Samsung. Fortunately, this is done in 4 steps:

1. Open S Voice by double clicking "Home";
2. Open the "Menu" (upper right corner of the application);
3. Select the "Settings" column;
4. Uncheck the box next to "Open with Home Button".

For fans mobile devices we often hear about the benefits of voice assistants, which are rapidly evolving every now and then with the advent of new technologies and the release of revolutionary smartphones to the market. Probably, some people find these technologies useless and think that they would never be able to use them. We assure you, this is before the first use. Bixby.

A worthy competitor to Siri and Google

One of distinctive features the most recent, revolutionary device Galaxy S8 from a South Korean company Samsung was an innovation that had not previously been encountered in more than one solution from the giant. Meet Bixby, a voice assistant that will simplify the use of your smartphone and help you with solving problems associated with it.
Bixby was not developed at Samsung from scratch, but based on the technologies of the previous assistant. You probably don't know about it because few people have used it. But it has been installed in almost all smart devices from the company, even watches. We can say that S Voice(this is the name that the first voice assistant on the devices of the South Korean company bore) became a great help for Bixby, which the world saw quite recently. However, this is not a continuation of the S Voice idea. Only help was taken from the old technology, in essence, the new product surpasses both it and its competitors from Google in everything.

Features of Bixby Voice Assistant

Unlike analogs, the new project from Samsung will not be limited to living only on smart devices such as Android and watches. No, the South Korean company plans to go much further. In their ambitions, they see Bixby embedded in almost all household appliances, which in theory should make them easier to use. The platform for the new voice assistant will be operating system Tizen, embedded in some refrigerators from the giant company.

These innovations will allow technology to move to a completely different level. If you can't imagine how this will be used, then here's an example: you own a smartphone with Bixby, while at the same time you have a new refrigerator from Samsung at home. Instead of writing lists of groceries to buy, you can simply ask your smartphone about what is not in the fridge, what you usually buy, and what you need to buy now. Also, a photo of the content will be provided. But, for now, this is only a theory.

Bixby in smartphones

A separate button is dedicated to activate the voice assistant. This makes its use as convenient and quick as possible. On the other hand, a wave of incomprehensible remarks poured out on Samsung. Why allocate a dedicated button on your device for Bixby when you can use a simple and accessible voice command? This was probably done to popularize the new technology. It's hard to disagree: if your smartphone has some kind of button, then you will undoubtedly want to know: what does it do? Thus, more and more people will become familiar with Bixby. Probably, when the use of a voice assistant becomes commonplace for owners of gadgets from Samsung, the company will abandon the button in favor of a convenient voice call. Do not throw away the ability to activate Bixby with a gesture familiar to the user.

Main functions

Its only function is to make managing your smartphone as easy as possible. It can get to the point that you don't have to use the screen - just say out loud what Bixby has to do and it will. Such opportunities, in the form of working with applications, menu items, photos and audio, cannot be offered by more than one competitor on the market. This makes the novelty from Samsung interesting and popular. On the other hand, while Galaxy smartphone The S8, like the voice assistant itself, is relatively new, it is impossible to judge the relevance of using Bixby features in non-standard applications. By the way, the need to walk through the menu items is not such a useful thing, because it's faster to do everything with your fingers than to ask Bixby for help out loud. On the other hand, it is an extremely useful thing for people with disabilities.

Bixby has been blessed with a feature that was previously introduced into apps from well-known marketplaces. Its essence lies in scanning a specific object, making a search for it on the Internet. Thus, the user of a smartphone with Bixby has the opportunity to view information about the things he is interested in, as well as find it on the vastness of Internet sites and stores, and find out about the average price. But, unlike applications, the voice assistant perceives and searches not only for goods, but for any object that turns out to be of interest to the smartphone user. It can be a house, a monument, or whatever.

The voice assistant perfectly understands natural speech. For example, take Siri - if you want to learn something from her, then you need to contact her according to a certain list of phrases. With Bixby, everything is much easier, at least if you speak to your smartphone in English. And of course, where without an instant translator. The novelty is also equipped with this function, so you can forget about third party applications... Just dictate your text and Bixby will translate it into the language you want.

Bixby is an extremely forward-looking creation from Samsung that just needs time for a few things:

• firstly, the South Korean company must bring all Bixby functions to stable operation;
• secondly, to settle down with their fans, who will undoubtedly appear soon.

When both of these events happen, we will see this technology on other Samsung devices, but for now, only S8 and S8 users have the opportunity to test it.

Today we will touch on the beautiful and wonderful - the voice assistant. This is the feature that many manufacturers believe should change the world and take the user experience to a whole new level. Since we have not yet reviewed S-Voice, Samsung's proprietary assistant, it's time to revise it!

S-Voice Is a voice assistant or assistant, whichever is more convenient for you, which Samsung introduced together with the third version of its flagship and new version TouchWiz Nature UX. From the very presentation I never cease to rejoice that the leading manufacturers began to pay more attention not to hardware, but to software and the subject of today's review is confirmation of this. In a nutshell, S-Voice is the aunt in your smartphone (only if your smartphone is a Samsung Galaxy S 3) who will at least try to answer all your questions and complete the tasks assigned to her.

Surely, they are working on the technology, since my English remained clumsy, but S-Voice now does not shut me up, almost always understands the first time and this, of course, is good. Let's start from the very beginning - from the first launch. First, you will be told that the smartphone can perform various tasks using its voice. Then there are a number of instructions, in general, we geeks skip all this.

You can activate the assistant at any time by saying a greeting. The standard is "Hi Galaxy", but you can easily change to "Hi Borodach", "Hi Alladin" or whatever you want.

If we compare the call of the voice assistant in SGS3 and in the iPhone, then it is more logical here - you need to press the mechanical Home key twice. A long press brings up a menu of running applications. In the iPhone, on the contrary, and this is not correct, since this menu has to be used more often, so it would be logical to hang a single long tap on it.

In childhood, S-Voice was not the smartest in the class, but now she has grown up and has become much more intelligent and educated. If you have at least some English, you can already ask S-Voice any general education questions. Moreover, I asked absolutely any interesting questions, from presidents to converting values. In case S-Voice has something to say, in addition to two or three words, the "More" button will appear under the answer.

But we, of course, are most interested in the basic functionality of S-Voice as a voice assistant. You can find out the weather anywhere in the world at any time, you can use your voice to turn on and off all kinds of phone functions, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. By the way, I could not get Siri to turn on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. You can post something to Twitter using your voice, set a timer or alarm, make an appointment in the calendar. I was very pleased with the opportunity to build a route and turn on turn-by-turn navigation, for this you just need to ask to take you somewhere. You can also type in notes and more.

At the moment Russian is not supported, but it should appear. S-Voice isn't the only cool thing about voice in SGS3. Like any other Android 4 device, there is a "stenographer" (something we called her).

Wherever you need to enter text, you can press the microphone and just pour out your soul (read - rewrite the hut on the cat), she will understand everything and write it down on paper.

Final revision

Probably the biggest drawback is the inability to work with the voice assistant offline. At least GPRS is needed. And I'm also wondering what will happen with the SGS3 update to Android 4.1, because there is a pretty good assistant in the form of Google Search. Will they be left to live next to each other, or will GS functionality be combined with S-Voice?

I will no longer compare S-Voice with similar solutions in some other devices, since these functions are exclusive and you will not be able to install any of them on another device. S-Voice was even ripped out of the firmware and made publicly available, but the assistant simply does not want to work on other devices. But what you can install is similar solutions from the market, like Iris, Assistant, Jeannie and others. Having used, in due time, each assistant, I can say with confidence: if you have SGS3 - it is better not to look for an alternative to S-Voice, that's all third party solutions somewhat easier. But I will put a fat point in this statement when S-Voice learns Russian.