Samsung’s voice assistant released in 2017′Bixby‘, even with its own physical key, was on the phones at the time. However, when the voice assistant could not find a response from the users, Samsung found the solution to remove this physical key.

Although Bixby is still not widely used today, Samsung today announced an important feature for its assistant. With the new OneUI 5 update coming soon, Bixby to answer incoming calls by texting will provide.

You can ‘talk’ to the person in front of you by texting

The new ‘The Bixby Text Call’ feature that comes with OneUI 5, without speaking during the call, typing like texting This way you can talk to the person next to you. The text you type is sent by the Bixby Assistant. is translated from text to audio. In addition, the conversations of the person in front of you are displayed directly as text.

According to Samsung, the conversation that Bixby analyzes during this conversation is not recorded on the company servers. The speech audio files are converted after each speech-to-translation process. will be deleted.

Samsung’s new feature, first of all only in his home country South Korea will be available. It is not yet known when the feature will support English and other languages.