Samsung Bixby Live Experience: Your mobile phone can actually understand you like this

IT168 commented on "Hi Bixby, give me a rap". This seemingly crazy command, I thought I would receive a reply of "Sorry, no search results", but Bixby actually did it properly. I used a paragraph of words and came up with an artificial intelligence rap. Different from mechanical reading, Bixby has a good sense of rhythm and sounds much less lame. It really gave me a lot of surprises.

On November 21, Samsung officially held a press conference in China. Its artificial intelligence Bixby officially entered the country, integrating voice (Bixby Voice), vision (Bixby Vision), reminder ((Bixby Reminder) and The Bixby Home function has achieved Bixby’s extraordinary ability to “listen, read, and understand your heart.” After the press conference, the author also “teased” Bixby in the experience area, except for the highlighted Rap performance at the beginning of the article. , Bixby really has a lot of useful information

Bixby can speak human language

Everyone has more or less come into contact with artificial intelligence, jumping-bean-like speaking rhythm and poor Chinese pronunciation. It often makes people complain. Bixby's Chinese is obviously much better. The segmentation of long sentences is more natural and does not sound jerky. It can also handle some rap rhyme pauses, which surprised the author. In order to adapt to Chinese pronunciation, Samsung China Research Institute has also made great efforts to invite real people to dub, making Bixby’s male and female voices more realistic.

In addition to imitating the pronunciation and rhythm of real people’s speech, Bixby also has the logic of language. Enhanced, you can analyze it based on the semantics, context and other factors before and after, so as to respond more accurately. Even if you encounter some vague instructions, you can still interact with the user through certain voice before making a judgment.

< p>To give a simple example, the author asks Bixby "How is the weather today?" Bixby will call up the weather forecast and announce the weather by voice. At this time, if you want to continue to know the weather tomorrow, you only need to ask "What about tomorrow?", Bixby It will naturally connect to a command to understand the command and directly report tomorrow's weather. It can be seen that the interaction with Bixby is not a mechanical repetition of instructions, but is obviously closer to the communication between people.

We also learned that Bixby’s speech recognition processing needs to be implemented in the cloud, so the entire process is done online. In the absence of a network connection, Bixby can provide specified feedback to some user-preset instructions.

Bixby can understand the world

Bixby integrates computer vision capabilities, thus creating Bixby Vision. Whenever we encounter new things in life, Bixby can identify them at a glance, making it easier to understand Understood. The entrance to Bixby vision is hidden in the camera. After turning it on, Bixby instantly becomes a smart AI. When I become interested in the BB8 model in front of me, I only need to scan it with Bixby, and the corresponding information will be displayed and selected. A shopping link pops up and you can click to purchase, which greatly saves the search process.

In addition to recognizing objects, Bixby is also good at text recognition and supports corresponding translations in multiple languages, which is extremely useful when traveling abroad. Suddenly, when you walk into a Spanish restaurant and are faced with a Spanish menu and don’t know where to start, you only need to scan it with Bixby, and the text will be extracted and further translated into the corresponding Chinese, instantly resolving the language embarrassment.

Bixby is really capable

Samsung emphasizes that Bixby can bring about changes in the way mobile phones interact and achieve the transformation of "click and speak", which also makes Bixby the author's favorite The most capable artificial intelligence ever created. In actual experience, Bixby voice can be used to easily implement routine system-level operations such as "turn on XXX function" and "call XXX".

What’s more interesting is that Bixby voice also supports the operation of some third-party applications, such as WeChat, Alipay, Weibo, ofo*** bike sharing, etc. When you are bored, saying "Open WeChat Moments" to Bixby will jump directly to WeChat Moments. Saying "Send XXX a red envelope of XXX yuan to XXX" will jump directly to the WeChat red envelope payment verification page, and even the amount of the red envelope has been filled in. Well, you only need to swipe your iris to pay successfully, completely freeing your hands.

According to Samsung news, there are currently 17 third-party applications optimized for Bixby. The commonly used Weibo, WeChat, and Alipay are all supported, as well as bicycle sharing, video, and music. , maps, shopping and other applications can basically meet daily needs. In the future, Samsung Bixby will also have in-depth cooperation with other applications to cover more applications.

Bixby is not only artificial intelligence integrated into mobile phones, but also runs through Samsung's smart ecosystem. Its TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, smart speakers and other Internet-connected devices can be accessed and controlled through Bixby. During the experience session, just say "Connect TV" to Bixby to cast your phone's screen to the TV in front of you without any complicated operations, which is very convenient.

Bixby is very talented in music

If you are tired of communicating with Bixby verbally, music is also one of Bixby's strengths. In the author's opinion, Bixby is really talented in music. In addition to rap, he can also improvise music. Say "Hi Bixby, I want to compose music" to Bixby, and Bixby will immediately provide you with several styles and genres to choose from. After I make my choice, I can freely draw a few curves, and Bixby will be able to compose improvised music based on these curves, which is very fresh. . Just imagine, at a gathering of friends, you might as well use Bixby to compose improvised music to add to the fun and show off your skills.

After a brief experience, Bixby is indeed outstanding. Smart and capable are the author’s most direct impressions of it. When we are used to one-way command artificial intelligence, the emergence of Bixby has changed the author to some extent. Understanding: It turns out that AI can communicate with me and understand me in this way.

Currently, Samsung has announced that the Chinese version of Bixby will be officially launched on November 30. Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note8 users will be the first to try it out. The upcoming W2018 will also be pre-loaded in the first batch. Are you ready for Bixby?