Samsung announced on 14 October 2026 that it is expanding language support for Galaxy AI and Bixby, with Hungarian and Malay coming to four translation and transcription features and Polish, Thai and Vietnamese joining its device agent. The company’s announcement puts both Galaxy AI and Now Nudge at 24 supported languages, and Bixby at 12, though the new languages have different rollout schedules.
Key points
- Hungarian and Malay are being added to Call Assist, Note Assist, Interpreter and Transcript Assist.
- Now Nudge gains Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati, Hungarian, Malay, Romanian, Swedish and Turkish.
- Bixby’s Polish, Thai and Vietnamese rollout begins on 14 October; the new Galaxy AI languages are due in the following weeks.
Hungarian and Malay reach four Galaxy AI features
Samsung names Call Assist, Note Assist, Interpreter and Transcript Assist as the four features gaining Hungarian and Malay. Together they cover tasks that depend on language in different ways: translating speech during a call, working across languages in an exchange, and turning spoken material into text that can be handled alongside notes. Samsung says the additions bring Galaxy AI features including Live Translate to 24 languages, but says the new Galaxy AI languages will arrive in the coming weeks rather than beginning their rollout on 14 October.
Translating a phone call could let words pass between Malay and English while the conversation takes place, once the relevant language support is available. Samsung depicts that language pair in its announcement, while labelling the image a simulation whose actual interface may differ.
The company’s 24-language count covers languages rather than every regional form as a separate entry. Its list, for example, gives several forms of English, Chinese and Spanish within those languages. That distinction matters to the count: an English variant does not become another language simply because it appears separately in a menu. Samsung includes Hungarian and Malay alongside languages already on its Galaxy AI list, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.
Samsung says some of the newly added Galaxy AI languages can be obtained as language packs through the Settings app. A language pack is a way of making a particular language available to a feature, rather than a separate translation or transcription feature in its own right. The distinction helps explain why the same two additions can extend several existing tools without changing what each tool is for.
Now Nudge adds eight languages
Now Nudge has a different job from the translation and transcription features. Samsung describes it as suggesting a relevant next step from what is already visible on the screen. Its eight new languages are Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati, Hungarian, Malay, Romanian, Swedish and Turkish, bringing its stated total to 24.
Dealing with something already on a screen could become less dependent on switching languages before considering a suggested next step, if Now Nudge is available in the language being used. Unlike a translated call, that activity starts with material already in view. Samsung’s description ties the suggestion to that material, rather than to a spoken request or a search through settings.
Putting the two 24-language totals side by side also requires care. Samsung gives one list for Galaxy AI and a separate account of the languages Now Nudge is gaining. The totals describe support for different tasks: one group of features translates, transcribes or summarises, while Now Nudge proposes an action based on screen content.
Bixby’s Polish, Thai and Vietnamese rollout begins
Samsung says Bixby’s new languages begin rolling out on 14 October, taking its supported-language count to 12. The company describes Bixby as a device agent for natural-language control: a request can describe what needs changing without supplying the exact setting name or tracing its location through a menu. That is rather like asking for something by describing it instead of having to know which labelled drawer contains it.
SammyGuru reported that the newer Bixby is powered by Perplexity. Samsung’s account of this language expansion focuses instead on the interaction it offers: controlling the device through a request in ordinary words. For people building features around that interaction, the language change concerns which requests Bixby can handle, while Samsung cautions that available functions can differ by country, region and language.
Samsung says Bixby requires a Samsung Account login and a data connection. It also warns that recognition can vary with accent, dialect, expression, pronunciation, voice level and surrounding noise. Bixby use can be limited during calls, while recording media, and in Maximum Power Saving mode, Emergency mode or Samsung Kids. Those conditions apply to a device-control feature whose usefulness depends on the request being understood in the moment it is made.
Samsung says the Bixby rollout beginning on 14 October may vary by device and country. Samsung plans to bring the new Galaxy AI languages in the weeks after 14 October, with some available to download as language packs from Settings.
