With over a billion people in the world speaking Mandarin, its only natural albeit late Samsung has announced its Bixby voice recognition software available on Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note8 can now understand Mandarin Chinese.

The language will work on these devices in Malaysia after English and Korean, acknowledging the need to introduce Mandarin, the choice is more comfortable with those who speak it as their natural language. Now instead of struggling to say ‘Open Camera App’ and constantly getting it wrong, Mandarin speakers can say da kai xiang and launch their camera.

With the introduction of its new language capability, Mandarin Chinese will now be integrated into Bixby Home, Reminder and Vision, as well as selected native apps by Samsung, Bixby Lab and other third parties. The Bixby ecosystem will soon connect across devices, apps and services as an intelligent interface, and will also soon expand the language capabilities to other dialects.