Discontinued intelligent personal assistant
S Voice
Final logo before the 2017 Shutdown
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Original author(s)
| Samsung
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Developer(s)
| Samsung
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Initial release
| 30 May 2012
; 12 years ago
(
2012-05-30
)
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Final release
| 4.0.00.20 (August 18, 2017
; 6 years ago
(
2017-08-18
)
[1]
)
[±]
Bixby is a S Replacement launched in 2017
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Operating system
| Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"
Android 4.1 ? 4.3 "Jelly Bean"
Android 4.4 "Kit Kat"
Android 5.0 ? 5.1.1 "Lollipop"
Android 6.0 ? 6.0.1 "Marshmallow"
Android 7.0 ? 7.1.1 "Nougat"
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Successor
| Bixby
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Available in
| English
,
French
,
Spanish
,
Korean
,
Italian
,
Japanese
,
Russian
,
German
,
Luxembourgish
, and
Hindi
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Type
| Intelligent personal assistant
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S Voice
is a discontinued
intelligent personal assistant
and
knowledge navigator
which is only available as a built-in application for the
Samsung
Galaxy
S III
,
S III Mini
(including NFC),
S4
,
S4 Mini
,
S4 Active
,
S5
,
S5 Mini
,
S II Plus
,
Note II
,
Note 3
,
Note 4
,
Note 10.1
,
Note 8.0
,
Stellar
,
Mega
,
Grand
, Avant,
Core
,
Ace 3
,
Tab 3 7.0
,
Tab 3 8.0
,
Samsung Galaxy Express 2
,
Tab 3 10.1
,
Galaxy Camera
, and other 2013 or later Samsung Android devices. The application uses a
natural language user interface
to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of
Web services
.
[2]
[3]
S Voice is based on the
Vlingo
personal assistant.
[4]
For
Galaxy S5
and later
Samsung Galaxy
devices, S Voice runs on
Nuance
instead of Vlingo.
Some of the capabilities of S Voice include making appointments, opening apps, setting alarms, updating social network websites such as
Facebook
or
Twitter
and navigation. S Voice also offers multitasking, as well as automatic activation features, for example, when the car engine is started.
[5]
[6]
In a disclaimer that pops up on first opening S Voice,
Samsung
states that the app is provided by a third party, which it does not name.
[7]
In the
Galaxy S8 and S8+
,
Bixby
was announced to be a major update and replacement to S Voice from the prior phones. It was discontinued on 1 June 2020.
[8]
Supported phones and tablets
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Flagship smartphones and tablets
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Galaxy S
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Galaxy Note
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Mid-range smartphones and tablets
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Galaxy A
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See also
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References
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Preceded by
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S Voice
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Succeeded by
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Subsidiaries
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R&D centers
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- Central South America
- China
- CIS
- Europe
- Japan
- Middle East
- North America
- South East Asia
- South Asia
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