Nexus One Censors Naughty Words
Reuters noticed that Google's Nexus One phone will censor cuss words if you're using the voice recognition function. Instead of showing the word on the screen, you get a series of hash marks that match the number of letters in the naughty word. I just tried it on my Droid and it does the same so I guess this is an Android thing, not just a Nexus One thing. Anyone else get the same behavior?
Reuters noticed that Google's Nexus One phone will censor cuss words if you're using the voice recognition function. Instead of showing the word on the screen, you get a series of hash marks that match the number of letters in the naughty word. I just tried it on my Droid and it does the same so I guess this is an Android thing, not just a Nexus One thing. Anyone else get the same behavior?
So why the no-curse policy? After all, what business is it of Google's if a person chooses to be profane in their private communications? A Google spokeswoman provided a statement suggesting that replacing curses with # symbols aimed less at enforcing etiquette than to ensure that offensive words don't accidentally appear in transcriptions – a potential concern given the fact that voice recognition technology is still not perfect.
