Bixby?

[dlgus]

My voice sensitivity is at low but I am not able to change it as it is greyed out

If you go to settings, and voice wake up, you should be able to change it.

 

[dlgus]

This is what I have observed. Bixby is good for phone settings and do tasks like tasker. Google Assistant is good for more like internet stuff and getting /fetching information from the net.

I thought that was the intention.

 

[dlgus]

If it has to do with your phone use Bixby. If it has to do with something that's not on your phone then use Google Assistant. It doesn't have to be an either-or proposition. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. An artificial assistant that combine both would be the king.

The thing that kills me is all the people in here reveling in their ignorance. "First thing I did was disable Bixby." Why? Why wouldn't you take a couple minutes to familiarize yourself with something that could potentially be extremely useful?

From simple to pretty complex commands, Bixby is the real deal. The only weakness that I found is its ability to correctly recognized names and then learn from those mistakes. My wife's name is Carla spelled with a C. It continually tries to search for a contact Karla with a K when I try to text. It's pretty annoying. But anything that has to do with the phone it's pretty Rock Solid

Can you 'teach' her differently? I hate the way she says the number 10.

 

[Mark Kaplan]

If it has to do with your phone use Bixby. If it has to do with something that's not on your phone then use Google Assistant. It doesn't have to be an either-or proposition. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. An artificial assistant that combine both would be the king.

The thing that kills me is all the people in here reveling in their ignorance. "First thing I did was disable Bixby." Why? Why wouldn't you take a couple minutes to familiarize yourself with something that could potentially be extremely useful?

From simple to pretty complex commands, Bixby is the real deal. The only weakness that I found is its ability to correctly recognized names and then learn from those mistakes. My wife's name is Carla spelled with a C. It continually tries to search for a contact Karla with a K when I try to text. It's pretty annoying. But anything that has to do with the phone it's pretty Rock Solid

I have to disagree. The AI can't even read incoming texts over Bluetooth without being told to. Coming from WP, Cortana did all this and more. Hopefully MSFT can port that functionality to Android.

 

[john_sacco1]

The voice recognition on Bixby is horrendous. I ended up using a 3rd party app to disable it. Bixby Remapper allowed me to disable it but unfortunately, Samsung has blocked these 3rd party apps' ability to allow you to actually use the button for something useful instead.

 

[tuckertje01]

The voice recognition on Bixby is horrendous. I ended up using a 3rd party app to disable it. Bixby Remapper allowed me to disable it but unfortunately, Samsung has blocked these 3rd party apps' ability to allow you to actually use the button for something useful instead.

Bixby Remapper still works fine on my S8+, it now opens gallery. And I also use Button Mapper to use long press vol +/- for different purposes. After using Bixby Remapper you can still give Bixby voice commands.
I noticed that after rebooting the phone Bixby Remapper has to be enabled again every time.

 

[dlgus]

The voice recognition on Bixby is horrendous. I ended up using a 3rd party app to disable it. Bixby Remapper allowed me to disable it but unfortunately, Samsung has blocked these 3rd party apps' ability to allow you to actually use the button for something useful instead.

I'm sorry that just took me back to a scene in the Big bang theory where the scientist with a lisp was saying how horrible Siri was.

 

[jhimmel]

The thing that kills me is all the people in here reveling in their ignorance. "First thing I did was disable Bixby." Why? Why wouldn't you take a couple minutes to familiarize yourself with something that could potentially be extremely useful?

Obviously you are different , but me - I just can't think of many places where I want to be speaking commands to my phone. That's just me.

 

[Toxa]

in your car... so you pay attention to the road, not your phone.

This is a reply to the previous post, sorry

 

[dlgus]

Obviously you are different , but me - I just can't think of many places where I want to be speaking commands to my phone. That's just me.

I do it at home, and the office. It doesn't work that well outside.

 

[Mickwa76]

Think of it this way. Bixby can control your entire device. Google Assistant can search everything and provide information. Best of both worlds.

Exactly.

 

[Mark Kaplan]

Exactly.

Neither will read my texts and let me respond while I'm driving.

 

[reinbeau]

Neither will read my texts and let me respond while I'm driving.

There's a program called Agent that *will* read you your texts, then you should be able to use Google Assistant or Bixby to respond verbally. I use it to silence my phone according to my client appointments, it reads your Google calendar. Might be worth a try. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tryagent

 

[Mark Kaplan]

There's a program called Agent that *will* read you your texts, then you should be able to use Google Assistant or Bixby to respond verbally. I use it to silence my phone according to my client appointments, it reads your Google calendar. Might be worth a try. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tryagent

I've tried virtually every 3rd party in the store for this and none of them come close the Cortana on WP experience. They all require some sort of interaction with the screen and the ones that do attempt the functionality are so annoying to use I'm unable to. I am hopeful the functionality
comes to Bixby.

 

[reinbeau]

I've tried virtually every 3rd party in the store for this and none of them come close the Cortana on WP experience. They all require some sort of interaction with the screen and the ones that do attempt the functionality are so annoying to use I'm unable to. I am hopeful the functionality
comes to Bixby.

You wouldn't have to interact with the screen. Have you tried Agent? I have done just as you've said you want.

 

[Jrome.brooks]

Bixby is getting better it's not as bad as people say it is but I really don't use assistants when I did try it it was okay

 

[Mark Kaplan]

You wouldn't have to interact with the screen. Have you tried Agent? I have done just as you've said you want.

I have not tried Agent yet but will do that today. I've been trying to work with Drivemode which is fair.

 

[reinbeau]

There are a few different ways you can handle texts. I have it set to autorespond but you don't have to.

 

[Mark Kaplan]

I have not tried Agent yet but will do that today. I've been trying to work with Drivemode which is fair.

Agent only does canned responses so that won't work for me. Drivemode is what I've settled on. It's voice is annoying but it has the functionality I need.

 

[reinbeau]

I answer via Ok, Google Oh well, glad you found something that works for you.