The most amusing test for any voice recognition system is belting out a few foul words.
Android 2.x translation is surprisingly accurate, however, words like the f-bomb will result in ####. According to Google via gizmodo:
It's less about sanitizing users' speech and more about making sure curse words don't accidentally appear in transcriptions erroneously.
I recall standing in a South Carolina cemetery where an official named Mike Hunt was introduced to the media in a thick southern drawl. I can attest to the way different speech programs (my northern brain after not sleeping for a day) can translate things.
By adding ".com" after your #### utterance, the true word (####.com) is displayed quite accurately.
The ####.com technique becomes more useful on Android firmware updates over 2.0 where Text-to-speech is available (in any field) for personal communication like texting.
Key words
For web enabled searches, text-to-speech is quite useful for finding quick phone numbers.
Voice search is activated by holding down the magnifying glass key while in any combination of programs or from the desktop.
Speaking Standard Concrete York Pennsylvania will give me the link at right with a map and phone number.
Floating over a phone number calls the number.
Speaking Map of resurants will give you a Google map of all the restaurants within your GPS location.
Touch the push pins, or zoom in to see the names of restaurants with direct links to calling and navigation.
Keywords are unlimited.
It depends on how you define your searches. It's like searching Google on your desktop, only it's integrated into Google's Android operating system, services and utilizes your GPS.
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