It appears that the Nexus One’s speech-to-text function performs the digital equivalent of washing your mouth out with soap.
Reuters discovered that the innovative voice recognition feature converts swear words into a string of # symbols when rendered into text.
Why the censorship? A spokesperson from Google says the “feature†is less about sanitizing users’ speech and more about making sure curse words don’t accidentally appear in transcriptions erroneously, a real possibility given the early and not always accurate state of voice recognition technology.
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