SAMSUNG'S voice assistant has been delayed AGAIN because it's struggling to grasp English grammar and phrases.

The software, dubbed Bixby, was announced ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone launch.

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But as ecstatic Samsung fans unboxed their smartphones, the Siri rival was nowhere to be seen - despite the fact that Bixby has its own button on the side of the device.

It's because the Korean smartphone maker has been struggling to train its machines to understand they way we speak, according to insiders.

Bixby is already available in Korea - where Samsung is based - but English syntax and grammar is not its strong point, they claimed.

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They say Samsung fans will be waiting "several weeks" for access, according to the .

“Bixby Voice will be available in the US on the Galaxy S8 later this spring,” Samsung previously said in a statement.

It later said we could expect to see the software by May.

Creating a competent voice assistant is a tricky task.

Google has only just widely launched its own assistant for Apple phones.

Samsung has previously claimed Bixby will become far more powerful than Microsoft's Cortana, Apple's Siri and Google assistant combined.

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In a statement, it boldly claimed that “in the future, you would be able to control your air conditioner or TV through Bixby".

“When an application becomes Bixby-enabled, Bixby will be able to support almost every task that the application is capable of performing using the conventional interface (i.e. touch commands).

“Most existing agents currently support only a few selected tasks for an application and therefore confuse users about what works or what doesn’t work by voice command.

“The completeness property of Bixby will simplify user education on the capability of the agent, making the behaviours of the agent much more predictable.”

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