TD Staff Over the last few days, HTC left all its followers in the belief that the company is coming up with a new application similar to Siri. It posted an image on Twitter with a screen shot of HTC One X phone featuring a voice recognition software depicting a chat between a dog and the handset. It left many to think if HTC is coming up with a software to translate the bark of a dog in simple language. However, HTC’s Jeff Gordan confirmed on Twitter that the news is false and it was just a joke made for HTC’s Pet Week.
Author Cory Gunther states said in a report, “It looks like HTC has been having some fun this afternoon at the expense of blogs and HTC Android fans everywhere. Tossing up a picture on their official Twitter teasing an upcoming S-Voice and Siri rival voice assistant program — only for dogs. Everyone quickly jumped on it thinking the dog part was just a cover, but yes, this was indeed fake.” The report adds, “After posting the photo there was a wave of comments, speculation, and posts popping up everywhere, but it appears this was indeed a fake for “pet week”
However, the joke made analysts and HTC users to think if the new application could be an answer to Apple’s Siri or Samsung’s S-Voice. The image gave people indications if the company is planning to unveil its voice recognition software along with its next Sense user interface. On the other hand, this joke by the company could be a marketing strategy in order to later launch a voice recognition feature with the sense UI but as for now, Jeff Gordon has denied the news.
The report stated, “Between Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s new S-Voice, the voice helpers on mobile devices have been a hotly discussed topic as of late. Google is preparing their own codenamed Project Majel that we’ve heard will be shown off at Google I/O next week as Google Assistant, so this was pretty good timing HTC. HTC’s “Top Secret” new voice assistant was looking very similar to Siri and other options, being able to take appointments, share weather alerts and all that jazz but we have a feeling they’ll just wait for Google’s Assistant to arrive with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Whether HTC is working on their own Siri voice assistant rival or not is still unknown. This could technically go both ways and they are just calming the waters for now.”
