{"id":48968,"date":"2026-07-14T03:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48968"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:31","slug":"bixby-users-are-hearing-weird-voices-they-never-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48968","title":{"rendered":"Bixby users are hearing weird voices they never selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3644052 noname aa-img\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Google Bixby AI assistants\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Google Bixby AI assistants\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" data-attachment-id=\"3644052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-64w-36h.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-1000w-563h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-1920w-1080h.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-1536w-864h.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-675w-380h.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-300w-170h.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-1280w-720h.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-Google-Bixby-AI-assistants-840w-472h.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-credit\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-and-credit full\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-credit text-right\"><span>Credit: <\/span>Adamya Sharma \/ Android Authority<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aa_tldr_text\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; padding: 10px;\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Samsung user says Bixby started switching between different voices after a recent update.<\/li>\n<li>The selected voice reportedly appears on occasion, while other responses use a lower, unfamiliar voice.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung\u2019s Bixby team acknowledged the complaint but did not confirm a bug or promise a fix.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Samsung has been working to make Bixby feel more natural, but one Galaxy user says the assistant sounds quite the opposite for them. Following a recent update, Bixby has reportedly started switching between different voices when responding, regardless of which one the user selected.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AA poll list --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"aa-poll-custom\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The complaint was posted in Korean on Samsung\u2019s Community forum. The user says their usual voice sometimes appears on the second response, while the first and subsequent answers use a lower, unfamiliar voice. They also report that Bixby no longer matches the notification voice configured through a routine. Another commenter criticized the broader inconsistency in Bixby\u2019s speech, claiming that the voice now changes noticeably depending on what it says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Adamya Sharma \/ Android Authority TL;DR A Samsung user says Bixby started switching between different voices after a recent update. The selected voice reportedly appears on occasion, while other responses use a lower, unfamiliar voice. Samsung\u2019s Bixby team acknowledged the complaint but did not confirm a bug or promise a fix. Samsung has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,16,178,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bixby","category-news","category-samsung","category-virtual-assistant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}