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Help censoring swear words

As far as I can tell this affects all andoid phones with voice to text.

Google via CNET said:
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
How Google's Nexus One censors cuss words | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

There isn't an option to disable it, only ways of circumventing the filter.

Neil Gaiman via Twitter said:
For the curious: swear into a Google phone & it transcribes it as ####. But if you swear and then say "dot com" it will write what you said.
Twitter / Neil Gaiman: For the curious: swear int ...
 
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Try a dictionary app. A broader vocabulary will reduce the need for swear words.

While I agree that swearing in general is overdone and often vulgar, I do think this link has some sort of point.

WARNING: NSFW. It is a youtube video. Shame on you for wasting your employer's time on youtube and AF. :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

I know, that is barely relevant. But I thought I would post anyway.

-Nkk
 
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for the few minutes that i had cm7 on my phone i was poking around the settings and there was an option in the voice input section that allowed you to control the filtering (strict moderate or none). I think it is a 2.3 thing and not a CM thing because it was not in the CM settings section. so you may not have to worry about this for much longer...
 
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