[kwlug-disc] Bixby

[CrankyOldBugger]

I'm kind of old fashioned..  if I need to make a call, I sit down and make
the call.  So I don't need any voice assistant thing, tbh..  Although I do
make good use of the speak-to-dial function in my truck..

Now if there's an app on my phone that will tell my Chinese girlfriend, who
phones me every day but only speaks Chinese, to go away, then that would be
of interest to me.  I'm getting tired of the telemarketers in my life,
regardless of what language they harass me in.. (and I still have no idea
what she's trying to sell me...)

Disclaimer: she's not really my girlfriend!



On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:08 PM Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:

> Jeff Smith wrote on 2023-06-19 07:27:
>
> > Just noticed a new thing on my Android phone, called Bixby.  Essentially
> > it answers the phone, asks the caller what they want,  then sends the
> > phone owner a text, then can take your reply to the caller.
> >
> > Has anyone ever used or heard of this?  Does it work?  This is my work
> > phone so I need to be careful.
>
> Bixby is a notorious Samsung thing - notorious because it can't be
> uninstalled and there is/was a hardware button dedicated to it that
> couldn't be re-mapped.
>
>
> I'm a infrequent user of Google Assistant. There's some overlap of Bixby
> functionality I think.
>
> Handy for making calls, and various tasks when hands are full / dirty, etc.
>
> Also, there's some feature on Android for screening calls that's very
> handy; unsure if that's Google Assistant. Sounds similar to Bixby in
> that regard too.
>
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