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January 24th, 2010, 22:05
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It'd be kinda funny if someone was live-bleeping your profanity, right? Sure, but five minutes later you'll sober up to regret and lingering annoyance. Turns out the Nexus One (http://www.engadget.com/tag/nexus+one) does it for real, courtesy of Google's speech-to-text engine -- it replaces the notorious four-letter F and S words with a '####,' which is a more dramatic take on the Zune HD (http://ww.engadget.com/tag/zune+hd)'s now-obsolete Twitter censorship (http://www.engadget.com/tag/censorship%2Czune). As silly as this sounds, Google has come up with a good reason:
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.
Kudos for caring, but it wouldn't hurt to have an on / off option either -- after all, it's not like we're asking for pinch-to-zoom (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/editorial-googles-multitouch-dilemma/) here, and we'll promise to use a swear jar.Google's Nexus One censors your voice-to-text input, we #### you not (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/24/googles-nexus-one-censors-your-voice-to-text-input-we-you/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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It'd be kinda funny if someone was live-bleeping your profanity, right? Sure, but five minutes later you'll sober up to regret and lingering annoyance. Turns out the Nexus One (http://www.engadget.com/tag/nexus+one) does it for real, courtesy of Google's speech-to-text engine -- it replaces the notorious four-letter F and S words with a '####,' which is a more dramatic take on the Zune HD (http://ww.engadget.com/tag/zune+hd)'s now-obsolete Twitter censorship (http://www.engadget.com/tag/censorship%2Czune). As silly as this sounds, Google has come up with a good reason:
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.
Kudos for caring, but it wouldn't hurt to have an on / off option either -- after all, it's not like we're asking for pinch-to-zoom (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/editorial-googles-multitouch-dilemma/) here, and we'll promise to use a swear jar.Google's Nexus One censors your voice-to-text input, we #### you not (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/24/googles-nexus-one-censors-your-voice-to-text-input-we-you/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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