Samsung debuts a Bixby feature that creates an AI-generated copy of a user’s voice to answer calls

Samsung has introduced a brand new characteristic for its Bixby cell assistant that creates an AI-generated copy of a person’s voice to reply calls. The brand new “Customized Voice Creator” lets customers report totally different sentences for Bixby to research and create an AI-generated copy of their tone and voice. Sadly, the characteristic is at the moment solely obtainable in Korean on Galaxy S23 collection gadgets.

The characteristic is designed to allow you to use your AI-generated voice to reply telephone requires you if you’re unable to. As an illustration, in case you can’t reply a telephone name, you might use the brand new characteristic to kind out a sentence that shall be learn out to the caller in your voice. Samsung says it plans to make the characteristic suitable with different Samsung capabilities past telephone calls sooner or later.

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Samsung additionally introduced that its Bixby Textual content Name characteristic, which transforms voice calls into written textual content, now helps calls in English. The characteristic initially launched final yr in Korean and lets customers reply calls by typing a message that Bixby will then learn out loud to the caller. Textual content Name can even transcribe what the caller says. The characteristic will be accessed on Galaxy S23 gadgets, the Z Fold 4 and the Z Flip 4.

As well as, the corporate says it’s rolling the power for customers to customise Bixby’s wake-up phrase into no matter they need. The voice assistant can now additionally play music relying on the kind of train that’s enjoying on Samsung Well being.

“Now, Bixby can higher perceive intent and course of follow-up requests by understanding context and associating phrases beforehand utilized in interactions,” the corporate wrote in a weblog publish. “For instance, Bixby customers can first launch a exercise on Samsung Well being after which ask Bixby to play music that most accurately fits that train by saying “Play music for this exercise.”

Samsung additionally introduced that it has expanded the issues that Bixby can do offline, equivalent to setting a timer, taking a screenshot or turning on the flashlight.