HTC Might Launch Voice Assistant For It's Smartphone's

HTC Might Launch Voice Assistant For It's Smartphone's Calls It A Top Secret On It's Facebook Page

HTC might be over selling it a bit with the top secret stamp, and the foot note sort of indicates that your next One device wont be interpreting Fido's barks. So, really, that only leaves one logical conclusion -- HTC is working on a voice control app. It shouldn't come as any surprise if you've been paying any attention to to mobile landscape these past few years. Google kicked off the party with Voice Actions and Apple gave the speech recognition tech some personality with Siri. Now Samsung has S-Voice and LG has Quick Voice... what's a Taiwanese manufacturer to do? Presumably make your own speech-driven virtual assistant. When will it debut, what will it be called? Who knows, but judging from the image above it seems safe to assume that HTC's new tool will be delivered as software update to at least some existing handsets.

 HTC Might Join the Smart Personal Assistant party with its New Upcoming App "HTC Speak", HTC Speak is reported to be included in the Next Update to the One Series Smartphones as it will be Exclusive to the HTC One Series and Other SmartPhones Too.

Update 1  : HTC tells us that it never intended to hint at a new voice service -- the image was just the punchline to a week of pet-related smartphone tips it featured on Facebook.

Update 2 On (Twitter): HTC has confirmed that this is in fact just a joke, and they're not working on voice control tech for dogs or humans.

@philnickinson @paulobrien Correct, it's just a joke to cap off HTC's "pets week." No news cycles here. :)
— Jeff Gordon (@urbanstrata) June 22, 2012