24.01.2010 22:51 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Google's Nexus One censors your voice-to-text input, we #### you not

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 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's now-obsolete Twitter censorship. As silly as this sounds, Google has a good reason for this: We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and retur

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