Comments on: Google’s Nexus One muzzles the foul-mouthed http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/22/google%e2%80%99s-nexus-one-muzzles-the-foul-mouthed/ Where media and technology meet Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: rk808 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/22/google%e2%80%99s-nexus-one-muzzles-the-foul-mouthed/comment-page-1/#comment-372396 rk808 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:55:56 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=20575#comment-372396 Sounds like the Stallone movie "Demolition Man" where Stallone is brought back to life in the future and any foul language will cost you credits. Be Well! Sounds like the Stallone movie “Demolition Man” where Stallone is brought back to life in the future and any foul language will cost you credits. Be Well!

]]> By: Jeremy-Chappell http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/22/google%e2%80%99s-nexus-one-muzzles-the-foul-mouthed/comment-page-1/#comment-372382 Jeremy-Chappell Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:08:47 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=20575#comment-372382 Err, I don't like to point of the #### obvious but, you're talking about technology that WILL make mistakes, now consider: You want to use the word "duck", Google's speech recognition could get you into a LOT of trouble. The use of "####" makes a lot of sense, firstly no offensive word is sent, and secondly you'll see the error (the '#' character stands out in text) and have a chance to correct it. If you mean to swear then the '#'s are enough to indicate to most people that was your intention. Seems like the ONLY option they could have taken. Now can you tell me you've never either misspoken and used a swear word (often without even being aware of it) or misheard a word and thought it was profanity? Spoken language has this problem, technology or not. I don't see the restriction can ever be relaxed. Unless you want something like Microsoft's "Clippy" asking: "It sounds like you swearing like a sailor, do you want any help with that?" (I can only imagine the response, but that's a lot of hash-marks) Err, I don’t like to point of the #### obvious but, you’re talking about technology that WILL make mistakes, now consider: You want to use the word “duck”, Google’s speech recognition could get you into a LOT of trouble. The use of “####” makes a lot of sense, firstly no offensive word is sent, and secondly you’ll see the error (the ‘#’ character stands out in text) and have a chance to correct it. If you mean to swear then the ‘#’s are enough to indicate to most people that was your intention. Seems like the ONLY option they could have taken.

Now can you tell me you’ve never either misspoken and used a swear word (often without even being aware of it) or misheard a word and thought it was profanity? Spoken language has this problem, technology or not. I don’t see the restriction can ever be relaxed. Unless you want something like Microsoft’s “Clippy” asking: “It sounds like you swearing like a sailor, do you want any help with that?” (I can only imagine the response, but that’s a lot of hash-marks)

]]> By: mathiastck http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/22/google%e2%80%99s-nexus-one-muzzles-the-foul-mouthed/comment-page-1/#comment-372322 mathiastck Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:17:11 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=20575#comment-372322 ####! ####!

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