Simultaneously with the Galaxy S8, Samsung announced a virtual assistant Bixby. Pulling their top-end smartphones in Seoul paid great attention to this technology, designed to compete with Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. A few months after the debut of the flagships Bixby is available only to Korean speakers, and the English and Chinese versions do not yet have a release date. About the Russian while nobody speaks at all.

As reported by The Korea Herald with reference to representatives of Samsung, the company again postponed the launch of speech functions Bixby in English. As it became known that the voice assistant had difficulties obtaining new data.

"Developing Bixby and mastering new languages ??took longer than we expected. The reason for this is, basically, the lack of "large data", "the publication of the statement Samsung. Also reported on other problems, in particular, the geographical and linguistic barriers that exist between the American, Chinese and Korean teams.

"Smart" voice assistant was positioned as a key function of the flagship smartphone Galaxy S8. The software was not ready by the end of April, when sales of the new Samsung device started. It is not available now - after two and a half months. According to sources, Samsung will delay the launch of the function for an indefinite time. The management of the company has not yet come to a consensus on when to bring a new assistant with artificial intelligence to the market.

At the initial stage Bixby should only work in several native applications. The function allows you to make calls, send messages, manage the camera, gallery and settings. The list of supported applications will eventually expand, the only question is when it will happen,.

The functionality of Bixby Vision, which allows you to recognize products through the camera lens and make purchases in online stores, is still available in 11 countries, including the US, UK and South Korea.