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hey it's Chris Walsh of The Verge we're checking out big speed voice on the Galaxy s8 now this is Samsung's version of Siri or Google assistant and there's a button on the side of the phone that actually activates it we're going to try it out it's in beta today so it's going to be rocky gonna have some problems but we're going to throw some common questions at it and see how it responds so there are two ways to trigger bixby voice you can say hi big speech or you can just hold the side button here and hold it down while you talk so hi big speech show me the weather in San Francisco it's 69 with lots of sunshine today so it's got that right not bad kind of basic stuff let's try something else fairly easy choose the president of the US it's 59 with lots of sunshine today well couldn't have gotten that much wrong hi big Street turn down my brightness alright brightness has decreased so you can ask you to perform system tasks brightness turn off flu tooth turn on Wi-Fi things like that so it's got that down pretty well so one thing Vicks be voice can do that Siri can't is actually interact with apps and do things that you would normally take several steps to do so I can say hi pics be open ooh BRR and show me my account settings so it opens the app and actually goes several screens and to show you what you want pretty cool and so you can of course open apps so I can say hi big speak open Spotify alright ears yeah so so far it will open Spotify that will actually apply any music for the unfortunately you can use google music if you want to play music directly but Spotify can't just yet hi big speak text mom and ask how are you here is what I found on the web me to improve on that one let's try again from the home screen hmm hi Bixby hi Bixby so voice is less than perfect let's hold this side button text Dan and ask what's up search SF message not working so great send a text to dad and ask how are you that one didn't work at all so the big dilemma that Samsung faces here is trying to offer things that Siri and Google system don't there are some of those there's promise here but how long will it be before Google and Apple offer the same functionality and better Bixby voice has some unique features but it also struggles with some basic questions on day one we'll see how it pans out over the next few months I see a lot of things aren't working at all or they're coming up wrong now this is in beta it's day one Samsung is still working through this stuff but Google has this stuff down already like I can say text mom and ask how are you got it do you want to send this text or change it sand sand okay message sent