Bixby learns Mandarin Chinese in Malaysia; caters to the large Mandarin-speaking community in Malaysia

Samsung Malaysia has just announced that the Bixby voice assistant has just picked up a new language: Mandarin Chinese. Users of the Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note8 devices can now communicate with their smartphone in this new language.

Samsung Malaysia introduced this new language after US English and Korean, which were offered since launch. The introduction of Mandarin Chinese allows users to interact with their devices in their mother’s tongue.

With the introduction of its new language capability, Mandarin Chinese will now be integrated into Bixby Home, Reminder and Vision, as well as selected native apps by Samsung, Bixby Lab and other third parties. Via Mandarin Chinese, existing Malaysian users will be able to smoothly switch from voice command, to touch, to text, and back to voice in their own comfortable language.

Samsung plans to add more languages while the natural language-understanding ability allows Bixby to continuously improve its interpretations of regional dialects. The Bixby ecosystem is also set to grow with more devices, apps and services meshing together as an intelligent interface for an ever improving experience with Bixby.

Pokdepinion: I have never gotten the opportunity to try Bixby, but support for Mandarin Chinese is definitely a huge challenge considering pronunciation and context is very important in understanding Chinese. Kudos to Samsung for overcoming the difficulties!