The Nexus One's voice recognition service which can transcribe spoken words into text censors out curse words, Reuters reports.
For instance, it turns "fuck" into "####."
Google says the company just wanted to play it safe.
If you said "I'm in the mood for fudge for dessert" in text to a friend, and the voice recognition misheard you, it could be embarrassing.
Here's Reuters:
One of the most innovative features of Google’s new Nexus One is the built-in voice recognition. But there’s one major limitation that Reuters discovered while putting the smartphone through its paces: the phone is a bit of a prig.
Try uttering a curse word into the Nexus One, and the well-mannered device will automatically replace the offensive expression with a string of # symbols.
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