Google scrubs Nexus One language recognition clean

One of the Nexus One’s more useful features is arguably the speech-to-text identification inspection and repair that allows you to dictate textual matter messages, emails and vane hunting queries. Thanks to Android 2.1 OS, the Nexus One can track record your voice, send it to Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s speech recognition servers and figure out what it is you’re trying to say. It really is a handy feature. W. C. Handy, that is, until you’re trying to get dirty with your textual matter messages. Turns out, Google gown all language recognition textual matter clean and jerk of profanity and dirty speech. Thankfully, typed textual matter is still free of cuss-intelligence censoring.

If you wealthy person a Nexus One close by, you mightiness wishing to have it effort to recognize a duo bad words. For those of you without Google’s own Android smartphone, let us blusher a painting for you: You’ve had a kick of a solar day. You effort to speak those sentiments into a text subject matter on your N1. Instead of transcribing your language into an impactful routine of textual matter, Google gown your spoken text and inserts “I’ve had a ### of a day.” That is how Google volition censor the Nexus One and any other Android earpiece running Android 2.1.

Why is Google doing this? Are they looking at to go Big Brother on your communication theory? Not exactly. Google apparently just wants to avoid a situation where a benign intelligence or musical phrase mightiness be misinterpreted as something much more naughty and accidentally sent to your mother in law. Or, as Google put it to Reuters, “We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we wishing to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken inquiry and return profanity when, in fact, the substance abuser said something completely innocent.”

We can live with that. Unless your name is Martha Focker, you probably North Korean won’t brain Google’s speech identification nanny inspection and repair too much either.

[Via: Reuters]