Bixby?

[Deke218]

I feel stupid talking to my phone. I don't want people hearing what I'm doing. The voice stuff has never really appealed to me.

So, how do you make phone calls?

 

[Jon44]

The ability to create customized voice "macro's" with Bixby is a huge advantage. Having a dedicated button also is a game-changer. It's like having a physical button that can be turned into the "record" button for a voice memo, or a flashlight button, depending on what personalized shortcut you activate (with a single word).

 

[kirksucks]

So, how do you make phone calls? //uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170911/a7285d393cc35b261f9e54dd07b530ba.gif

I open the phone app, click on the button for the contact I want to call and then I talk to the person. Not my phone.

 

[kevinpleasants]

I feel stupid talking to my phone. I don't want people hearing what I'm doing. The voice stuff has never really appealed to me.

There's no need to feel stupid talking to your phone. No one's gonna pay any attention to you. I know you've looked around and see a lot of people using their phones in some kinds of way. Talking, texting or something. If you don't like using voice stuff in public you can use it in private, like when you're cooking, washing dishes, driving, hands wet, hands dirty, hands full. I hope this helps.

 

[kirksucks]

There's no need to feel stupid talking to your phone. No one's gonna pay any attention to you. I know you've looked around and see a lot of people using their phones in some kinds of way. Talking, texting or something. If you don't like using voice stuff in public you can use it in private, like when you're cooking, washing dishes, driving, hands wet, hands dirty, hands full. I hope this helps.

I guess I'm just not ready for 2017.

The things you mentioned sounds useful but feel like I always forget about ok Google, I set it up then when I remember or need it, I've recently reset my phone and all the settings are off.

Here's to Bixby not sucking

 

[DeepSeaGoddess]

When making your own custom commands it's still only limited to the commands you can search within Bixby right? I'd love to set it up so that when I said something like "play linkin park" it would open Spotify and start my Linkin Park playlist. It can't do that because it's very specific to me and not a common command right?

 

[Vipmediastar]

Bixby on N8 is more responsive than S8+ to me. Even google assistant. N8 for the win. Both Bixby and google assistant are better at understanding me and not having to repeat myself even when i whisper or mumble my voice. However GA is better at certain commands like texting "john doe" or "call john doe" as where bixby i kinda fail at it. I do use bixby for the points though. Maybe I will win a T.V.

 

[Gray Area]

When making your own custom commands it's still only limited to the commands you can search within Bixby right? I'd love to set it up so that when I said something like "play linkin park" it would open Spotify and start my Linkin Park playlist. It can't do that because it's very specific to me and not a common command right?

Im not sure about Spotify but on Google play it does exactly that when you say it. But with the custom commands that I've been using it's ways to get it to do what you want with any app if you tweak it just right. Because you can combine several commands together. But then again it might work with Spotify just as it does with Google play music.

Give it a try! And let us know how it works.

 

[Gray Area]

why push the button? how's it like?

I find sometimes it can't hear me or won't answer to the voice command so pushing the button works great in those moments.

 

[Cary Quinn]

Check out this video Bixby Voice + Google Assistant is a Powerful Combo on Samsung Galaxy S8 :

[video]Bixby Voice + Google Assistant is a Powerful Combo on Samsung Galaxy S8[/video]

Bixby and Google can work together. Both are designed to learn how you work and play and make it easier for you to get things done, and both can be improved to enable more features.

 

[Jean Sagarese]

You can use Bixby to change the color of the words that you write with your Spen

 

[fwinst]

It's young, and not very intuitive yet. It also has issues understanding/pronouncing many words. I'm hoping they keep making improvements, but right now it's WAAAAY behing Google and Siri...Cortana too.

 

[anon(1733)]

Everything I ask it to understands just fine. Have not had any issues yet. You just have to understand what it can do and what it can't.

 

[kevinpleasants]

It's young, and not very intuitive yet. It also has issues understanding/pronouncing many words. I'm hoping they keep making improvements, but right now it's WAAAAY behing Google and Siri...Cortana too.

Bixby learns you. That's why the more you use it, it'll begin to understand your pronunciation of words. Go into settings and read the explanation of Bixby and the tutorials.

 

[ol_jackburton]

I open the phone app, click on the button for the contact I want to call and then I talk to the person. Not my phone.

no, you talk to the phone and then your cell phone converts your voice into an electrical signal, which is then transmitted via radio waves.

 

[kirksucks]

no, you talk to the phone and then your cell phone converts your voice into an electrical signal, which is then transmitted via radio waves.

Where's the eye-roll emoji. Haha. I guess I communicate with another person by talking to my phone. I don't like communicating with my phone tho. In public anyway.

 

[edubb256]

I tried Bixby back when it was first released on the S8. I thought it was useless at that point. I tried it again and it has come a LONG way. I am giving it another chance, but am finding it is still way behind Google Assistant.

 

[DeepSeaGoddess]

Swipe right, go to Bixby
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Then go here
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Then
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How are you actually adding the customization commands? When I go to this the only options I have is either use what's in Bixby history or search commands. I looked at you optimize phone and when I try to set something similar up it doesn't find, for example, go to battery settings. Etc

 

[Gray Area]

How are you actually adding the customization commands? When I go to this the only options I have is either use what's in Bixby history or search commands. I looked at you optimize phone and when I try to set something similar up it doesn't find, for example, go to battery settings. Etc

Do it from regular trial and error, for instance without going into the quick command menu just from your phone home page say hi Bixby and then say what you want it to do. Don't use the pre-installed commands unless it applies. I just sit around and think of things I want it to do then I'll keep asking Bixby in different ways until I get the desired results.

Once you get a few commands that you like then go back to quick commands, and set up your command using the history and then put the commands in the order that you want. I hope this makes sense.

Like for my optimize phone command, I asked Bixby 1 at a time and then went and made the quick command and added each line 1 by 1 from the history.

 

[DeepSeaGoddess]

Do it from regular trial and error, for instance without going into the quick command menu just from your phone home page say hi Bixby and then say what you want it to do. Don't use the pre-installed commands unless it applies. I just sit around and think of things I want it to do then I'll keep asking Bixby in different ways until I get the desired results.

Once you get a few commands that you like then go back to quick commands, and set up your command using the history and then put the commands in the order that you want. I hope this makes sense.

Ahhhh. Got it. Thank you so much.