Bixby Text Call now available in India too (only in English, though)

2023-11-06

Earlier this year Samsung launched the English version of Bixby Text Call in select markets – now this includes India too. The feature still only supports English, but you may find it useful. Long story short, it transforms an incoming voice call into a text chat (note: this isn’t available for outgoing calls).

Once you activate it (follow the Source link for instructions how), you will see the Bixby Text Call button on the incoming call screen, next to the usual green answer button. You have the option to switch from a text call to a regular voice call at any time.

But once you start a text call, you will see what the caller is saying as text bubbles, just like a chat app. You can type in responses (or use one of the prewritten ones) and those will be sent using the text to speech system.

Bixby Text Call now available in India too (only in English, though)

One interesting advantage of text calls is that the transcription is saved and you can access it later from the Recent calls screen. Of course, the natural use case for this is answering calls when you can"t or don"t want to speak out loud.