One of the more impressive features that first came on the Nexus One then other devices with Android 2.1 is the speech-to-text feature. Anytime you can type on the phone, you have the option to use the speech-to-text feature instead. And shockingly, it's quite accurate in most cases.
However, Reuters today discovered that the much praised feature converts all your curse words into strings of '####'. Why the censorship Google? In Google's defense, a spokesperson responded that the voice recognition technology is still in its early stage and inaccuracy is certain to happen. And that it was done to avoid profanity to appear in the transcription when it was not intended by the user at all.
“We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent,” a spokesperson from Google said.
This could possibly mean that Google may remove the censorship as the technology matures. Only time will tell.
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