Bixby Ramps up Development and has a Contest

Here much more on how Bixby voice assistant works, its general architecture, and how they are promoting development.  Also notably some advice from an award-winning developer, who shows how it works.

What Makes a Great Bixby Capsule? A Bixby Evangelists Offers Tips on How to Succeed in DevJam Contest.   By Roger Kibbe in Voicebot.ai

From October 18, 2019 through December 9th, 2019 Samsung is running a contest for the Best Bixby Capsule (i.e. voice app). The grand prize is $10K and entrepreneurship coaching by Adam Cheyer. Runners up receive $5K and there are 25 $1K prizes. The first 250 capsules approved get a $300 Samsung store credit. You can qualify and win this prize for up to four different capsules.

Last year I won the top prize in the Bixby developer contest and realize that most other developers don’t know much about the voice assistant and how it is different from Alexa or Google Assistant. So, in the spirit of helping developers maximize their chances of competing well in Bixby DevJam, I put together this post to offer some tips. Applying these ideas won’t guarantee success in DevJam, but they should increase your odds provided you bring a great idea to the table.

THE OPPORTUNITY WITH BIXBY
Bixby is Samsung’s voice assistant and is available on 100’s of millions of phones and tablets. Beyond phones and tablets, development for televisions (Samsung is the world’s largest TV manufacturer), appliances and watches is now available. Bixby gives you a massive opportunity to leverage the huge Samsung ecosystem. Seventy percent  of US households have a Samsung device. .... "

Bixby Dev Tool Private Beta Annoncement

Have now particpated in several betas and Dev efforts for assistants.    Here some basics and links to application for Samsung Bixby.   Unclear how broadly such developments could be applied to smart home.  Am most interested  in how such development can integrate with the underlying device architecture, and integrate with other skills to increase the overall intelligence of human augmentation.    Also looking for potential integration with learned and pre established knowledge graphs.

Samsung Development.
Are you interested in the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Do you want to add voice assistance to your app, to simplify usage or increase productivity? Maybe you’re an early adopter who has a keen interest in new technologies? If so, submit an application to join the Bixby Developer Program Private Beta. Selected developers will receive access to the Bixby 2.0 developer portal, documentation, and the IDE.

The Bixby AI assistant:
Tracks your to-do list and presents what you need. 
Identifies landmarks and products that you capture with the device camera.
Understands you when you speak naturally.
Translate foreign languages.
Learns and adapts to you. .... 

For more details about Bixby features, see http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/bixby/overview/?redir=*Bixby*

For an introduction to using Bixby, see http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00062929/

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If anyone has thoughts on this, or would like to collaborate on such an investigation contact me. Via comments or Linkedin.